Marijuana

MARIJUANA (Cannabis sativa) has had a significant role in the culture and economy of BC. Its popularity as both a recreational drug and a cash crop dates from the 1960s, when the counterculture movement brought thousands of young people, many of them marijuana users, into the province. In the extensive areas of logging slash in rugged mountain terrain, growers found garden sites that were open to the sun, yet remote enough to provide some security from police and thieves. Cannabis thrived in...

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