'I Can’t Afford It': California Farmers Divided On Benefits Of Prop 64
Laura Costa’s son and husband moved quickly with pruning shears as they harvested the family’s fall marijuana crop, racing along with several workers to cut the plants and drop them in plastic bins ahead of an impending storm.
The farm, hidden along a winding mountain road in a remote redwood forest, is just one of many illegal "grows" that make up Northern California’s famous Emerald Triangle, a marijuana−producing mecca at the intersection of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties.
California voters will decide November 8 whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use - an issue that has sown deep division here among longtime growers. The Costas and many fellow pot farmers have yearned for the legitimacy and respectability that could be bestowed by legalization. But they also fear Proposition 64 will bring costly regulations and taxes and could put them out of business if corporate interests and big farms take over....
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