Mom Made Them Do It

Chris and Charles Ball’s mom settled a brotherly argument. Now, the Ball family is on a mission to create the highest quality cannabis while providing opportunities for other social equity applicants through its LA-based Ball Family Farms.

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Vanessa Stump

The year is 2010, and Chris Ball is facing a 10-year prison sentence for trafficking cannabis from Canada to his hometown of Los Angeles. A professional football player in the Canadian Football League, his future is now up in the air.

Year founded: 2018

Biggest challenge in either launching or maintaining a cultivation operation: “Finding the correct master of cultivation or master of genetics.”

Biggest challenge in either launching or maintaining a cultivation operation: “Los Angeles–cost, taxes, everything. They make it so difficult. If you’re in LA only, you think, ‘Oh, this is normal.’ Then you go somewhere else and its’s so much easier.”

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