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Will Pot Save a Bush-Obama County From the Sequester's Impact?
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Mar 03, 2013 11:43pm |
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| Category | Speculative |
| Author | David Dent |
| Media | Website - Huffington Post |
| News Date | Monday, March 4, 2013 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | They have nothing to fear in the sequester. After all, they have marijuana and much experience with the perils of poverty.
Residents in California's Trinity County are accustomed to economic doom coupled with the promise of pot. "Here we used to rely heavily on timber," says Wayne R. Agner, Editor of Trinity Journal. "It used to be a timber county for a long, long time. At one time, we had 30 mills, we're down to one... But we're sitting here in the middle of the Emerald Triangle where the marijuana grows. When you're talking the economy, you're talking marijuana for us too... It has been an economic stabilizer for us in terms of replacing some of the timber that is no longer here. We've gone to another form of agriculture you can say. Yes, it's an underground economy and those dollars flow through the county."
The unemployment rate in California's Trinity County has grown to 17 percent, up from 11 percent in 2003. The median income is $35,207, which is 61 percent of the state average and one of the lowest of all Bush-Obama Counties. "This is a county that has been doing without for a long time," says Agner. "We're a fairly poor county, so we've learned to roll with the punches pretty well. We just know that nobody is riding in with a white horse and with a big check. So we don't even start thinking that way." |
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