The majority of illegal marijuana production takes place in North America is on the Western Coasts of the United States and Canada.
Marijuana farmers grew 22.3 million pounds of marijuana in 2006 in America. Most marijuana is produced for local, in-state use. According to National Survey on Drug Use and health, California contains 13.25% of annual marijuana users in the United States.
Generally, war did stop in the winter mainly due to the problems involving health and logistics. During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, troops were sent to barracks or quartered in villages to rest and train as marching would have been difficult due to the problems with weather.
Basically the climate is so cold, there can be lack of resources like food especially, habitats of animals can be destroyed, houses of destroyed no place to live for people, it would be really hard to live outside in freezing cold.
The California coast was made by water erosion and ships from the gold rush.