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California: Wine grape growers lose labor to cannabis farms - Cannabis News
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Amid a years-long labor shortage, workers in California’s wine region are headed to cannabis jobs offering better pay, working conditions.
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Maria Vilchis had reached her breaking point. She couldn’t manage one more season working for a vineyard.
For years, she’d survived on temporary jobs picking wine grapes and cleaning barrels in wine cellars throughout the Salinas Valley.
But the hard labor was taking a toll on her body and the seasonal income wasn’t enough to support her family.
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Kaitlin Washburn ~ TheSunGazette.com ~
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