Wet Summer Leaves Cannabis Farmers Concerned About Climate Impacts

With parts of New York experiencing record rainfall this year, cannabis farmers are finding extreme weather to be a significant cause for concern as the state moves ahead with its legalized adult-use market.

Cannabis plants are particularly sensitive to heavy rain and heat. Many farmers struggled with the former this year, some losing large swaths of their entire crops.

“Because hemp is so sensitive to water, the plants literally drowned and died because the roots couldn’t get any oxygen,” Allan Gandelman*, president of the New York Cannabis Growers and Processors Association told WSKG