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Former Prison to be Turned Into Cannabis Oil Operation

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Things are happening fast in the ever-changing and growing cannabis industry, and many taboos are being overturned in favor of turning a profit and helping out those who need medicine. The most recent victory for cannabis in California is the possible ironic repurposing of a prison and turning it into a cannabis manufacturing center for oil.

According to the Fresno Bee, the city of Coalinga is considering repurposing Claremont Custody Center, a closed prison, into an oil production center. The irony goes even further here, because Coalinga is also the city that first discovered the petroleum field, making the fact that they want to cash in on a new kind of oil even more interesting.

This proposal is backed by Mayor Ron Ramsey and City Manager Marissa Trejo, and the company looking to buy the prison is Ocean Grow Extracts based out of Southern California. The company will use the 77,000 square foot area to grow cannabis and then manufacture it into oil.

So far, the City Council is backing the proposal, and it is clear that brining this business into the area will have numerous economic benefits for the town. However, San Joaquin Valley is known for being conservative, so it is not clear if the 13,000 residents of the town will be in support of this measure.

However, they may be persuaded due to just how much money this operation could make for the area. The city would make an extra $2 million a year, and the factory would provide over 100 new jobs. If California does legalize recreational cannabis, they stand to make even more money.

This is especially tempting since the town is no longer making money from oil.

“People are hurting—the oil industry is losing jobs,” Mayor Pro Tem Patrick Keough told the Fresno Bee. “We’re talking about 100 full-time jobs, and no dope in the streets.”

With these great goals in mind, it will be interesting to see if Coalinga cashes in and makes history for producing a new kind of oil in a repurposed prison.

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