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Recently planted marijuana cuttings are pictured in a humidity dome in a nursery at Baker's Medical, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in Oklahoma City.  When voters in conservative Oklahoma approved medical marijuana in 2018, many thought the rollout would be ploddingly slow and burdened with bureaucracy. Instead, business is booming so much cannabis industry workers and entrepreneurs are moving to Oklahoma from states with more well-established pot cultures, like California, Colorado and Oregon.   (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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Pot entrepreneurs flocking to the Bible Belt for low taxes
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Pot entrepreneurs flocking to the Bible Belt for low taxes

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — From their keen taste for sun-ripened pot to their first meeting at a pro-marijuana rally in college in the 1990s, everything about Chip and Jessica Baker fits the stereotype of cannabis country in Northern California, where they lived for 20 years.