Name: 洛杉磯的娛樂大麻產業真的要完蛋了嗎？！ (Is the Los Angeles cannabis industry in crisis?)
Uploaded: 2026-02-04T09:08:47.000Z
Duration: 5 min 17 s

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As we know, Louisiana has one of the biggest cannabis markets in the country, but

我們知道，路易斯安那州擁有全國最大的大麻市場之一，但

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many licensed business owners are saying they can't make ends meet.

許多合法經營者都說他們無法維持生計。

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So why are the legal shops struggling to survive while the illegal ones thrive?

那為什麼合法商店在掙扎求生，而非法商店卻蓬勃發展呢？

Yeah, a lot of people upset about this one.

沒錯，很多人對這件事感到很生氣。

We're joined live in Studio by LA's correspondent, Jordan Running.

我們現場連線洛杉磯的記者 Jordan Running。

Jordan, thank you so much for being here and kind of breaking this down for us.

Jordan，非常感謝你來到這裡，為我們闡述這件事。

This is a huge industry, especially here in California.

這是一個龐大的產業，尤其是在加州這裡。

Many legal pot shops, they're actually struggling to stay afloat.

許多合法大麻商店，其實都在掙扎求生。

I mean, it's not easy for these business owners.

對這些經營者來說，真的不是件輕鬆的事。

And so there is a lot of consumption here in LA County.

所以洛杉磯縣這裡的消費量非常大。

There's almost a million pounds of cannabis is consumed every year.

每年有將近一百萬磅的大麻在這裡被消費掉。

And so of that, though, about 60% is going to illegal shops.

而其中，大約有 60% 是流向了非法商店。

So the legal shops, they have to fight for this, the competition of just market pressures.

所以合法商店，牠們必須為了這塊市場而奮鬥，面對市場的壓力。

But then they also have to deal with the fact that these illegal shops aren't paying taxes, they're paying lower, lower leases on their properties.

但牠們還得處理這些非法商店不用繳稅，租金也比較低的房產問題。

And so they have to charge more, which is pushing, again, a lot of these consumers to go to the illicit shops.

所以牠們的價格就必須更高，這又把很多消費者推向了非法商店。

Okay, so the city was supposed to be using millions of dollars in grant money to help the legal business owners, but

好的，所以市政府原本應該要用數百萬的補助金來幫助合法經營者，但是

Right, so there's a lot of things that went on here.

First of all, it took a long time for this money to get to the business owners.

首先，這筆錢花了很長一段時間才發到這些經營者手上。

So a program was started in 2017 initially that was supposed to help specifically people from black and brown communities who had been criminalized by the War on drugs in the past.

所以有一個計畫，最初是在 2017 年開始的，原本是要特別幫助那些在過去因為毒品戰爭而被刑事定罪的黑人和棕色人社群。

And so this program, although it was created in 2017, the first money didn't actually go out, and

所以這個計畫，雖然在 2017 年就創立了，但第一筆錢實際上並沒有發出去，而且

the first licenses didn't get applications until 2019.

第一批執照的申請要到 2019 年才開始。

The first money didn't go out until 2021, according to some of these business owners.

根據一些經營者的說法，第一筆錢一直到 2021 年才發出去。

And so during this time, a lot of these business owners were actually paying rents on properties that they had to acquire in order to apply for their licenses.

所以在這段期間，很多經營者其實都要支付房產的租金，而這些房產是他們為了申請執照而必須取得的。

So this is driving these business owners into debt, and

they're just trying to do it the right way, the legal way, and they're getting basically screwed over.

他們只是想循規蹈矩、合法經營，結果卻被搞得一團糟。

So they have to deal with, like I mentioned before, these market pressures that illegal companies don't have to deal with.

所以他們必須面對，就像我之前說的，非法業者不用面對的市場壓力。

And then also I talked to quite a few of these business owners who said they've been receiving more law enforcement attention than the illegal shops.

而且我也訪問了不少經營者，他們說他們受到的執法單位關注，比非法商店還多。

So one in particular said that they had been raided, or I shouldn't say raided, but

其中有一位特別提到，他們被搜查了，或者我應該說，他們被搜查了，

Had the state police come in to collect taxes several times in a few months.

在幾個月內，州警就來收了幾次稅。

You know, I want to talk a little bit more about this audit because you found, you know, uncovered a lot.

你知道，我想多聊聊這次的稽查，因為你發現了，你知道，揭露了很多東西。

What were some of the bigger findings that you found?

你發現了哪些比較重大的發現？

That you're like, wow, I was not expecting that.

讓你覺得「哇，我沒想到會這樣」。

So there were two separate audits that took place by two different state organizations.

所以有兩個不同的州級組織進行了兩次獨立的稽查。

One of them found that the city of Los Angeles may have misspent up to $10 million, or I shouldn't.

其中一個發現洛杉磯市可能挪用了高達一千萬美元，或者我應該說。

So they found that the state had potentially misspent money.

所以他們發現州政府可能挪用了資金。

The city itself found that that money could be up to $10 million.

市政府自己發現這筆錢可能高達一千萬美元。

And so that has been in the budget and included in this most recent budget year.

所以這筆錢一直在預算裡，並且包含在最近這個預算年度裡。

And there was a separate audit that found that some of this money that was intended to go directly to these social equity businesses in the form of grants, loans, and

而且還有另一項獨立的稽查，發現原本要以補助金、貸款和直接援助的形式，直接提供給這些社會公平企業的部分資金，並沒有按照補助協議的意願提供。

direct assistance that that money wasn't actually provided as the grant agreements intended.

好的，所以市政府說他們正在為這些企業提供法律上的幫助和支持。

Okay, so the city is saying that it's giving legal help and support to these businesses.

這些企業主顯然覺得這還不夠。

The business owners clearly don't feel like that's enough.

所以市政府說他們正在提供法律支持。

And so the city, they say that they are providing legal support.

他們告訴我，他們提供長達 10 小時的免費法律支持，以及 30 小時的低收費或較便宜的法律支持。

They told me that they provide up to 10 hours of free legal support and 30 hours of low bono or cheaper legal support.

But I was talking to some of these business owners, and

他們說這還不夠，如果他們需要提起訴訟的話，這根本不夠。事實上，他們過去已經不得不提起訴訟來處理在這個過程中出現的幾件事情了。

they said that's not enough to really cover if they needed to file a lawsuit, which they have had to do in the past already to cover a few different things that have come up in this process.

Yeah, there definitely needs to be something, because, I mean, these business owners go through so much, and

we all know, we hear about these stories with small businesses and all that they go through.

對啊，真的需要有什麼辦法才行，因為，我是說，這些經營者真的經歷了很多，

And when you feel like the city's not helping you or the state's not helping you, that's.

我們都知道，我們也聽過很多關於小型企業的故事，以及他們所經歷的一切。

當你覺得市政府沒有幫你，州政府也沒有幫你，那。

I mean, what do you think needs to be done from here?

我是說，你覺得接下來需要做些什麼？

So there's a few different things that these business owners are really calling for right now.

And one of them is stronger enforcement on these illicit businesses.

所以，這些經營者現在真的在呼籲幾件事情。

And nobody's calling for a return to what had been happening in the war on drugs, but

而且沒有人呼籲回到過去那種毒品戰爭的模式，

just at least an equal enforcement against these businesses that can give the legal businesses a chance to really compete in the market.

而是至少要對這些非法商店進行公平執法，讓合法商店有機會在市場上真正競爭。

Another thing is potentially lowering fees and taxes on these businesses.

另一件事是可能降低這些商店的費用和稅金。

There was recently a motion put forward in the City Council by Councilmember Emil the Padilla that would look into decreasing the city's tax rates on cannabis and potentially move towards a model like Oakland has where these social equity businesses and businesses that take in less income, they might pay less in their taxes.

最近市議員 Emil the Padilla 在市議會提出一項動議，將研究降低大麻的城市稅率，並可能朝向像奧克蘭那樣的模式，讓這些社會公平企業和收入較低的企業，可以少繳稅。

All right, a lot of insight here, Jordan.

好的，Jordan，這有很多深入的見解。

We're going to send everyone to your full article because you've really looked into this.

我們會請大家去看你寫的完整報導，因為你真的深入研究了這個議題。

Thank you for being with us this morning, guys.

To read that article, you can head over to LAS.

要閱讀那篇報導，你可以前往 LAS。

You can just check out our website, kcalnews.com and click Seen on TV.

你也可以直接到我們的網站 kcalnews.com，然後點選 Seen on TV。

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