California’s Department of Cannabis Control are battling black-market marijuana operations hidden in plain sight amid the cookie-cutter homes of suburbia. In this photo, Marijuana plants inside a grow house room in a suburban California home.
Mandatory Credit:	California Department of Cannabis Control via CNN

California’s Department of Cannabis Control are battling black-market marijuana operations hidden in plain sight amid the cookie-cutter homes of suburbia. In this photo, Marijuana plants inside a grow house room in a suburban California home.
Mandatory Credit: California Department of Cannabis Control via CNN

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