Mom Made Them Do It

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.”