A worker tends to cannabis plants at the NYSK Holdings indoor growing facility.
Photographer: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/BloombergEverybody Here Wants to Be a Cannabis Farmer
A tiny part of former Yugoslavia is pinning its economic hopes on the medical marijuana industry.
Jane Sevdinski used to work in the legal department at the finance ministry. He and a friend are now investing more than 1 million euros ($1.1 million) in four huge greenhouses.
A former karate instructor, Zlatko Keskovski is way ahead of them. At his facilities, workers dressed in medical drabs tend to flowers grown under fluorescent lights, carefully tracking and documenting production and storage.