A closer look at young people working in the booming marijuana industry, and how they navigate the grey market where growing, selling and possessing weed can be both legal and illegal.
7 Things You Should Know About Trimming Weed For $$$ A quick break down of all the reasons a large number of young, overwhelmingly white marijuana trimmers come to Northern California. making up an unexpected migrant farm worker community of trimmigrants.
Meet the reporters:Olivia Cueva has been running around with audio equipment since she was 14-years-old. She got her start in journalism with Youth Radio, traveled the country recording stories with StoryCorps, and is now a student at KALW's Audio Academy in San Francisco. Her work has been featured on NPR, KPFA, KQED, and KALW. She is a Bay Area native passionate about giving people the tools to tell their own stories.
Series Production Credits:
Reporting/ Radio Producers: Brett Myers, Olivia Cueva
Online: Ike Sriskandarajah, Noah Nelson, Denise Tejada, Robyn Gee
Photo/Video: Chaz Hubbard, Luis Flores, Jenny Bolario