I don’t think H-1B visas cover Marijuana pruner jobs, but then again you’re stoner college roommate just lost out on a job to a foreign worker as well – PB/TK
Migrant workers are making thousands trimming marijuana in California – By DAVID MILLER
Most people sitting around this table in Mendocino County are migrant workers. They flood into the region during the cannabis harvest in the fall. They are the trimmers –- those hired to cut marijuana for hours on end. Many trimmers in the county looking for work this season have come from all over the U.S. and from all over the world, including Spain, France, Portugal and Switzerland.
“You want to get all the big leaf, and all the leaf, off the flower stuff so it shows in a beautiful way,” said cannabis farmer Tim Blake. “You really want to trim it perfectly if you’re going to sell it.”
Blake, 60, is a self-described activist who has been growing cannabis for 45 years.
Blake’s 155-acre farm is located across the road from his dispensary, Healing Harvest Farms, in Laytonville, California. The farm is home to 99 marijuana plants that look more like trees, standing between 6 and 13 feet tall. On average, he said, they produce 400 pounds of weed annually.
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