This was kind of interesting, BUT. . .
It's so amazing/ disturbing to see people who were living there, in Humboldt County, people who had moved there precisely to take advantage of being black market marijuana growers- and especially those who moved there in the 1990's or later- decry the eventual legalization of marijuana (in California where this takes place), and at the same exact time relate their stories as if they are some kind of heroes, as if they were interested at all in people, improving things, etc. These growers were practicing abhorrent labor practices, taking advantage of workers, and making absolute bank, tax-free, with little labor cost, charging exorbitant prices for their product. . . like hello, look in the mirror. . . . . .the problem was YOU. You weren't doing a "good thing;" you were taking advantage of a situation that required violence, extortion, labor abuse, even kidnapping and murders.
This is a really good expose of how disgusting capitalism is. If you can stand to listen to the greedy, delusional, mean growers (there may have been some nice ones; but they, too, were taking advantage) and their families wax sentimental and poetic (vom!) about their disappointment in not being able to carry on their criminal enterprise that was making them lots of money, but once legalized, they couldn't get black market prices anymore and that made them so unhappy. Just wow.
Kind of difficult to watch the delusion and hypocrisy, over and over and over, as the growers interviewed tell their stories.
This is a really good expose of how disgusting capitalism is. If you can stand to listen to the greedy, delusional, mean growers (there may have been some nice ones; but they, too, were taking advantage) and their families wax sentimental and poetic (vom!) about their disappointment in not being able to carry on their criminal enterprise that was making them lots of money, but once legalized, they couldn't get black market prices anymore and that made them so unhappy. Just wow.
Kind of difficult to watch the delusion and hypocrisy, over and over and over, as the growers interviewed tell their stories.