Authorities in California’s Central Valley say they’ve found dozens of people working and living in “horrible” conditions at an illegal marijuana plant

  • DessertStorms@kbin.social
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    Capitalist legalisation is still capitalist, exploitation for profit is what the whole thing is about, don’t expect it to be different because the end person who sells to you is a friendly hippy, unless they or their friends grew it, there’s a decent chance it was grown by, at the very best, underpaid immigrants. Just like the rest of the produce we consume.

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    They’re going to have to start referring to them as something other than “pot plants” because I was picturing a bunch of immigrants hiding in an aspidistra