In the six year since proposition 64 was enshrined into law, the market has blossomed. Last year, sales topped five point two billion dollars. But local growers aren't seeing as much of that green as they'd like. They're held back by taxes on regulations that other states don't have. California's whole joint enterprise is at risk.
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 And a look at how companies that have withdrawn from Russia are faring.
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