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The reality of legal weed: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths


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Sep. 08, 2022

The reality of legal weed: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths

Proposition 64, California's 2016 landmark cannabis initiative, sold voters on the promise a legal market would cripple the drug's outlaw trade, with its associated violence and environmental wreckage.

Instead, a Los Angeles Times investigation finds, the law triggered a surge in illegal cannabis on a scale California has never before witnessed. California failed to address the reality that decriminalizing a vast and highly profitable illegal industry would open the door to a global pool of organized criminals and opportunists.
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