Recreational Marijuana Initiative Creates ‘Green Rush’ In Calaveras County

MOUNTAIN RANCH (CBS) — As California edges closer to legalizing recreational marijuana, growers are rushing to grab a little piece of the action, and it’s creating a land grab not seen in more than 100 years.
The Calaveras County town of Mountain Ranch boomed during California’s gold rush. Now, 166 years later it’s booming again.
“We call it the green rush. We don’t call it the gold rush, this is the green rush,” Bill Schmeitt of Mountain Ranch Realty to