From the west end of the unincorporated town of Sutter wafts a strong smell, familiar to many and scorned by some.
In recent weeks the odor from a nearby hemp grow, which smells just like marijuana, has subsumed parts of the small town that borders farmland surrounding the Sutter Buttes, and even lingered in the air outside of the town's high school.
The smell inundating parts of the Sutter County town as its harvest neared is one way in which the maturing hemp and marijuana industries in California have created unintended, and subsequently unplanned consequences.
"It's like there's a skunk in your backyard spraying constantly," said Kathy Ripley, Sutter resident.
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