Bay Area: A 2013 Outdoor Medical Pot Preview

Northern California is overflowing with seasonal laborers who are cutting down and trimming the state’s outdoor medical marijuana crops this week, and experts in the field forecast a bigger, longer, yet more conflict-ridden harvest than in years past. California leads the nation in domestic cannabis production, and the state’s pot growers bring in hundreds of metric tons of the fragrant, cane-like bush every harvest season, researchers estimate. This time of year, East Coast wholesale brokers tour farms in traditional growing [...]

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