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Column: Should cannabis workers get COVID vaccine before teachers? They are in California

Oops! Something went wrong. Please try again later. Erika D. Smith February 11, 2021, 5:00 AM Oops! Something went wrong. Please try again later. Retail cannabis workers have been moved into a high-priority vaccine group. Above, a woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine in El Sereno. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Last weekend, Jonatan Cvetko drove to a fire station in South L.A. and got vaccinated. He's not a senior citizen who is at particularly high risk of dying from COVID-19. Nor does he work at a hospital, spending his days and nights tending to critically ill patients on ventilators. He does, however, own a cannabis shop. And as of last week, that alone makes Cvetko eligible to get his... [Read more]

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