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A bizarre tale of cannabis boom and bust


A bizarre tale of cannabis boom and bust
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In the pandemic, hundreds of Chinese migrants who lost their jobs moved to a remote city on the Navajo Nation Indian reservation in New Mexico, to do what they thought was legal agricultural work. Instead, they and the local Native community found themselves pitted against one another in a bizarre cautionary tale about the boom in cannabis production in the US, and the impact on Asian migrant labourers.
When Xia (not her real name) first heard about the job as a flower cutter , she pictured roses.
Details were scant, but a roommate told her it was 10 days work for $200 a day, room and board included. Unemployed in the pandemic and unable to send money back to her adult children in southern China, Xia had been living at one of the crowded boarding houses common in the large Asian immigrant enclave of LA s San Gabriel Valley. The job sounded like a fine temporary solution. ....

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