They Signed Up to Grow Weed. Then New York State Pushed Them Into the Black Market
Weed legalization was supposed to prioritize mom-and-pop businesses — but for some upstate farmers, things didn’t go as planned.
On a rainy day toward the end of September, a longtime underground marijuana grower we’ll call Shawn coasted up I-86 from the Hudson Valley to Rochester to meet with a legal farmer. The farmer hadn’t…