Dennis Harvey Film CriticThe recent indie drama “Freeland” is about a fictive longtime Northern California pot grower whose life only becomes more complicated — and her business less viable — when the state legalizes the hitherto-criminalized industry.
New documentary “Lady Buds” features several of that character’s real-world equivalents, women whose entrepreneurial (as well as agricultural) skills are transitioning to a very different era for the marijuana marketplace.Chris J.
Russo’s debut feature, shot pre-COVID, means to be an inspirational portrait of sisters doing it for themselves in a no-longer-covert niche of capitalism.
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