Marijuana farmers at greater risk of taking own lives amid hardships, California industry officials warn
In January 2020, David Drips hit a breaking point. The U.S. Navy veteran and former general contractor had been trying for more than three years to get a 1-acre permit to farm cannabis in his home region of Sonoma County. But all he’d been able to establish was a small, 6,200-square-foot cultivation area that wasn’t …