Every once in a while I check the website of the local rag where I used to live just to breathe a sigh of relief that I don't have to put up with the nonsense there anymore.
Cannabis farming has been an ongoing debate there ever since legalization. They were one of the first progressive counties to jump on it, and most residents, who are 80% far left, were very happy about it. That all changed once legal cannabis was actually implemented. There has been the shady character and crime aspect, but that has been absolutely overshadowed by the stench of the crop.
In many ways I find this ironic in that it's almost the opposite of what you usually see with farming. For example, building a subdivision right next to a dairy farm that has been in place for 50 years, then demanding the dairy farm shut down. Here, we have homes that have been there for 50 years and a new, smelly farming operation cropping up next door. Or more precisely, often a farming operation that has switched crops. The big cash crops in many of these greenhouses before legal pot was flowers. That's quite a difference in "odor output".
It will be interesting to see how this is addressed here and elsewhere in the country. It appears technology will allow odor control, but at an initial cost of around $150K, with $15K/mo operating costs. I think that will probably kill off a lot of small growers if it becomes mandatory, and possibly make pot a "big tobacco" type of corporate crop. Or else individual growers will have to look for land in the boonies.
Anyway, interesting unintended consequences.
https://www.independent.com/2019/06/05/santa-barbara-county-in-an-uproar-over-cannabis-odors/