Greater LA

5 years of legal weed in CA: Barriers to entry, social equity challenges, booming illicit market


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Cannabis has now been legal for recreational use in California for five years. When the state adopted Prop 64 in 2016, the idea was to bring in money from taxes, reel back the impacts of the years-long war on drugs, expunge marijuana misdemeanors, and legalize the state’s illicit cultivators and sellers. On this anniversary, Greater LA looks at how far we’ve come, what LA is doing right and wrong, and why the illegal market continues to boom.

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