An international panel of experts, moderated by Brian Winters discussed the role of drug crop cultivation in environmental devastation such as deforestation and launched a report on the subject.
The move came as the president is pressing for an overhaul of criminal justice laws to reverse decades of steep penalties that disproportionately affect African-American and Hispanic men.
The loosening of marijuana laws across much of the United States has increased competition from growers north of the border, apparently enough to drive down prices paid to Mexican farmers.
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