Weed wars: California county fights illegal marijuana

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that prosecutors are preparing to challenge the state legitimizing marijuana. However, in some countries like California, the battle for production is furious.

In order to find a job, Laysea eventually came to the farm in Humbolt County, California. This is a countryside 300 miles north of San Francisco and is considered the center of high-end cannabis cultivation. In this area, marijuana (legal and illegal) is provided in most US. Every season, "immigrants" (names given to immigrant marijuana workers by locals) are looking for work. Finding the job of trimming is often the industry. The community is small, and producers want to work only with the people they trust. This work is both physically and mentally difficult. "It is both physically and mentally difficult, you are sitting in a chair for 17 hours a day, she needs a very stable person to do this," she said. In addition, unless you have a van like Laysea, the trimmer usually lives in the tent, and in the rainy season the farm is a huge mud hole.

After California approved legalization of marijuana last November, illegal producers quickly rushed to rural areas in northern California, a county declared an emergency. The drug cartel currently uses a new law to legally cultivate cannabis in California. And it can be illegally exported to other parts of the country. According to US Forest Department agent Stephen Frick, these cartels draw illegal immigrants to the state across California and are committed to pay high pay for work on cannabis on an industrial scale.

First of all, marijuana is not completely illegal. Tobacco has been legalized in many states in the United States (Colorado State, California State, Washington State, Arizona State, New Mexico State, and other 16 states) and the Netherlands. . Of course, this is not based on pure fun and carelessness. Distribution of legalized drugs is easy to manage, taxed, and the compounds can be standardized to minimize health risks and side effects. At the same time, many studies have shown that marijuana - its medical form - is beneficial for patients with serious diseases such as cancer. Rather, there are several groups of diseases that can ease symptoms through marijuana: