HUMBOLDT COUNTY — While dispensaries are the most visible part of the local cannabis industry, the major driver of the industry’s growth in Eureka and Arcata is manufacturing.
“From an economic development perspective, leaders ought to know that this is a basically a job-rich industry that the city of Arcata and its leaders have embraced as a way to ensure that Arcata and the North Coast can be viable and profitable for those businesses even though we’re behind the Redwood Curtain,” said David Loya, Arcata’s director of community development.
Arcata currently has over 30 cannabis businesses that are operating in the city while Eureka has over 60 cannabis businesses that are currently in operation. Of those 60, Rob Holmlund, Eureka’s director of development services, said “well over half of those are manufacturing and distribution.”
