The green rush: Behind the marijuana industry
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Mendocino County is resisting demands by federal prosecutors for records on medical marijuana growers who registered for permits to cultivate up to 99 plants.
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Mexican cartels’ role seems smaller than once believed, but the crops and the dangers they pose have proliferated in the last decade.
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Burgeoning marijuana growing operations are sucking millions of gallons of water from coho salmon lifelines and taking other environmental tolls, scientists say.
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Pioneering marijuana cultivators in the hills of Mendocino and Humboldt counties are being pushed to the margins by the legalization they long espoused.
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Under increased legal pressure, ‘Ricky’ closed his dispensaries and resumed selling marijuana — but only to those with a doctor’s recommendation.
