California Marijuana Legalization - The Illegal Market

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Paige St. John is an investigative reporter at the mighty Los Angeles Times where she's been in the field for a year covering marijuana in California. She found that the illegal market had used legalization as a springboard kind of a cover to come out of hiding from the forests and national parks into the valleys. Five more states, Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, and both of the Dakotas are weighing whether to legalize recreational marijuana next month.

Pro-pot Californians said legalizing marijuana would end the state’s black market for reefer. Instead, says LA Times investigative reporter Paige St. John, the illegal market is bigger than ever.

This episode was produced by Victoria Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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