Cannabis ‘Croptober’ is going up in smoke amid wildfires

But going to the CBD market comes with its own set of challenges, according to Aaron Scarborough, vice president of operations at Santa Rosa, Calif.-based NewTropic, which makes hash and extract along with other marijuana-related manufacturing. California’s fires in 2017 made extraction difficult because of heavy metals left from ash, potentially adding contaminants, Scarborough said.