For decades, cannabis cultivators harvested their crop by hand, wielding garden shears in garages, farming under the cover of forests. Before California legalized marijuana, growers often watered ...

Every summer, tens of thousands of migrant workers swarm a remote area of Northern California — the marijuana-growing capital of the US — to find work as "trimmers" after the weed has been harvested.

A visit to the Emerald Triangle during the marijuana harvest season. — -- They sit for hours at a time, hunched over tables with scissors in one hand and marijuana in the other. The work is ...