Between 2020 and 2021, we traveled to the north of Mexico to meet an entrepreneur looking to enter the legal cannabis industry in Mexico. There's a catch: his brother-in-law is a former leader of a drug cartel.
The path to legalization is messy in a country like Mexico. Who will be benefited in areas that are controlled by organized crime? What will happen in places like the Triángulo Dorado? And to the farmers who have grown marijuana for years?