‘Getting Worse, Not Better’: Illegal Pot Market Booming in California Despite Legalization
LAPPL News Watch
April 29, 2019
In the forests of Northern California, raids by law enforcement officials continue to uncover illicit marijuana farms.
In Southern California, hundreds of illegal delivery services and pot dispensaries, some of them registered as churches, serve a steady stream of customers.
And in Mendocino County, north of San Francisco, the sheriff’s office recently raided an illegal cannabis production facility that was processing 500 pounds of marijuana a day.
It’s been a little more than a year since California legalized marijuana — the largest such experiment in the United States — but law enforcement officials say the unlicensed, illegal market is still thriving and in some areas has even expanded.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The illicit tax-free pot market is also thriving in Colorado and Washington.
3 comments:
Mendocino County growers are hiring ex-special forces guys as security in this all cash business. They are paying big bucks for their expertise.
One thing you have to say for the legal weed market in CA, they test the stuff for both THC content and contaimanants / pesticides / etc. It is expensive weed but you know what you are getting. (Or so I've heard.)
So much for the "we can tax it and this will be a GOOD thing" argument.
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