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‘Trimmigrants’ Are Looking For Easy Summer Work; Growers Looking For Something Else
Press Democrat ^

Posted on 09/13/2016 10:38:38 AM PDT by rey

It’s no secret that the marijuana industry brings an infusion of money and seasonal work to the part of the North Bay known as the Emerald Triangle, but there’s a darker side to the industry.

Many of the seasonal job-seekers who painstakingly trim the marijuana flowers are young women who can end up victims of intimidation and sexual abuse. Often taken to remote farms deep in the forest unwitting females, often in their teens and early 20s, are especially easy prey for unscrupulous growers. break “Students from the nearest college, Humboldt State University, return from a summer of trimming marijuana buds with tales of being forced to give their boss (oral sex) to get paid. Other “trimmigrants,” who typically work during the June-to-November harvest, recount offers of higher wages to trim topless.

(Excerpt) Read more at marijuana.blogs.pressdemocrat.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; cannabis; marijuana
But it is a victimless crime.
1 posted on 09/13/2016 10:38:38 AM PDT by rey
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And of course marijuana makes white wimmin want to have the secks with black jazz musicians.

The author forgot to add that salient point.


2 posted on 09/13/2016 10:45:13 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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But, but, marijuana is completely harmless!


3 posted on 09/13/2016 10:50:43 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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I’m sure everything works the same way over at other recreational drug businesses, like Budweiser. [/s]


4 posted on 09/13/2016 10:58:02 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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Sounds like total BS to me.


5 posted on 09/13/2016 11:04:45 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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Reminds me of a movie I saw - girls were at a table, cutting and repackaging coke from bricks into individual "dime bags".

Naked, of course, to discourage theft.

6 posted on 09/13/2016 11:12:41 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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7 posted on 09/13/2016 12:28:43 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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You think that’s bad! You should see what they make them do at the arugula farms. Non-stop Hillary speeches!


8 posted on 09/13/2016 12:54:53 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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Source article: https://www.revealnews.org/article/in-secretive-marijuana-industry-whispers-of-abuse-and-trafficking/


9 posted on 09/13/2016 2:12:40 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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Guess what!

Summer is done.

Its getting cold fast here in CA.
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10 posted on 09/13/2016 2:20:58 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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Are you saying that the Pressed Democrap is a victimless crime?
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11 posted on 09/13/2016 2:23:29 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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