Independent local voices are silenced, and foreign ones are increasingly harassed or expelled. And the ethiopian ment's war and information is going to get worse, i think, before it gets better. The canabas gold rush is on. Legal medical and recreational marawana comes to the golden state monday.
The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has expelled our correspondent. Abiy’s proxies at home and abroad are helping a propaganda push that is silencing criticism. California’s legal-marijuana market is enormous, but its growers are floundering under taxes and regulations; the industry is getting stubbed out. And a look at how companies that have withdrawn from Russia are faring.
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