In ethiopia's amhara region, yet another cycle of unrest and crack down. The forested lands of northern california yielded the very finest marawuana in america. And since the invasion of ukraine, plenty of multi national businesses have made for the door in russia.
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 And a look at how companies that have withdrawn from Russia are faring.
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