Summary
One of the biggest impacts of Proposition 64, which legalized marijuana, will likely be felt by the estimated 300,000 to 350,000 workers in the California cannabis industry.
Whether they are farmworkers, trimmigrants who each year head to Humboldt County to process the crop, or retail clerks helping to legally sell various forms of the plant, there are workplace issues to be resolved.
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“It’s a very small number of workers,” said William Gould, chairman of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board.
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“There has been a great deal of litigation on what the boundary of agricultural work is and where that line is drawn,” said Gould, who served as chairman of the NLRB during the Clinton administration.
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