Judith Ramos stood in the middle of an agricultural field gazing at an enormous, high-tech greenhouse originally built for growing tomatoes hydroponically, but now also used for cannabis.
Between her and the massive complex owned by Glass House Farms, a California state-licensed cannabis company with stock traded publicly on a Canadian stock exchange, stood a row of federal law enforcement officers.
“My dad is in there,” Ramos told the Ventura County Reporter, as she awaited word on her father, Elias, who worked on the tomato side of the operation, at 5:29 p.m. July 10. “He gave me a call around 11:45 that they (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) were already inside. So, what I last heard was that he was still in there.”…