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Los Angeles (AFP) - Omar Buddakey emerges from a nondescript building in Los Angeles with a joint in his hand. Five years after cannabis was legalized in California, black market transactions like this one -- where no one pays any taxes, and the product is not regulated -- remain commonplace. "Legal shops are too expensive," the 27-year-old tells AFP, as he lights up his preroll. Over the course of a year Buddakey estimates he saves the equivalent of a paycheck from his patient transport job by avoiding the state-sanctioned outlets. "I'd rather pay less for the same thing. And I know it's the ...
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New York (AFP) - New York's first legal recreational marijuana dispensary opened on Thursday in the heart of Manhattan. More than 100 people crowded into the dispensary in New York City's East Village, run by the nonprofit Housing Works, a group dedicated to fighting homelessness and AIDS. "The first legal adult-use cannabis sales mark a historic milestone in New York's cannabis industry," said Governor Kathy Hochul, who oversees the fourth most populous US state. Hochul said in a statement that she expects New York to serve "as a national model for the safe, equitable and inclusive industry w...
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Beverly Hills (United States) (AFP) - We all know someone with a rubbish fashion sense, but Rob Greenfield is proud to be wearing garbage -- it's all part of a plan to show just how much trash we unthinkingly throw away every month. The campaigner is wandering the streets of Los Angeles and surrounding cities in a specially designed suit that holds all of the junk he has produced over the last few weeks. "For most of us, trash is out of sight, out of mind," he told AFP on the swanky shopping streets of Beverly Hills. "We throw it in the garbage can and it goes away and we never think about it ...
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Washington (AFP) - Her shopping cart is overflowing with food, but there is no trace of steak. "Too expensive," said Lisa, a 48-year-old mother, as she left a Giant supermarket in Washington. In the United States, land of barbecues and steakhouses, beef is becoming a luxury. Overall consumer prices rose by seven percent over the course of 2021, an inflation rate not seen since 1982, and the data for January, due out Thursday, is expected to show the yearly increase continued. American shoppers saw prices for meats, poultry, fish and eggs jump 12.5 percent last year, while beef has soared by ...
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Washington (AFP) - The American Booksellers Association has launched an advertising campaign against Amazon to alert the public to what it calls the growing danger that book stores are under from the online goliath during the coronavirus pandemic. The campaign, the first of its kind, was sparked by Amazon's "Prime Day" on Tuesday and Wednesday, during which Amazon offers bargains on products.Since the pandemic began, 35 book stores belonging to the ABA have had to shut their doors for good, the association told AFP, adding that some 20 percent of independent bookstores are under threat of clos...
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