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Booming Marijuana Industry Creates Unlikely Union in Trinity County

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If the polling holds up, Californians are likely to pass Proposition 64 in November, legalizing recreational marijuana. Cannabis cultivation is already a mainstay in the Emerald Triangle counties of Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity. But it's also a source of tension. Efforts to protect the community against an influx of outsiders are bringing together people who've been at odds for decades: environmentalists and their mortal enemies, loggers.

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