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Hard-Up Calif. Town Out of Joint Over Pot Influx

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By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 3, 2009 1:50 AM CST

(Newser) – A hard-scrabble northern California town has been turned topsy-turvy since the folks with tokes moved in. Thousands of pungent marijuana plants pack fields and yards in tiny Hayfork, population 1,900, where a quarter of the residents are poor. The local Timberjacks football team recently... Read full story »

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