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In the dusty, wind-swept city of Adelanto, officials are predicting big changes on the horizon. City Councilman Johnny "Bug" Woodard Jr. recently stood in front of a chain-link fence surrounding a vacant lot in the city's Green Zone, the industrial area where Adelanto allows medical marijuana...

If California is the land of reinvention, the small desert city of Adelanto fits the bill. Roughly a two-hour drive east from Los Angeles, Adelanto was founded in 1915 by an inventor who wanted to sell land to World War I veterans. His dream never materialized and the region was taken over by...