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LIKE IT OR not, the cannabis industry is shaped by capitalism. This has always been true, even when cannabis was illegal, because the black market is, of course, a market. Now that weed is becoming legitimate in the eyes of the law, the capitalists who own the means of production are doing what capitalists do: extracting profit. The workers, meanwhile, are organizing.

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) claims to represent “tens of thousands of cannabis workers across multiple

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