Loosened US pot laws have sent Mexican weed prices plunging – Marijuana News
It's a tough time to be a Mexican pot farmer. The price of marijuana has been plummeting partly because of the loosening of laws in parts of the US — encouraging growth of more high-end pot in America.
That's meant that some farmers in the Mexican state of Sinaloa are branching out into other types of crops — some legal, some not.
Los Angeles Times correspondent Deborah Bonello has been reporting on the challenges facing marijuana farmers.
Could free-market economics have done what years of a war on drugs could not?
Bonello spoke to host Marco Werman about what she discovered.
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