Posted on 03/21/2023 8:38:24 PM PDT by bitt
Multiple states in the West are seeing an increase in Chinese workers and funding at unlicensed cultivation operations.
A few days before Christmas, a joint law enforcement task force found nearly 9,000 pounds of cannabis worth almost $15 million during a raid in a suburban neighborhood in Antioch, Calif.
The California Department of Cannabis Control believes that the four houses searched in the bedroom community 45 minutes outside San Francisco were linked to China.
Mexican cartels have a long history of importing, growing and redistributing illicit cannabis in the United States. But Chinese investors, owners and workers have emerged in recent years as a new source of funding and labor for illegal marijuana production. What is known — from interviews with state law enforcement officials, experts on the international drug trade, economists and lawmakers — is that the number of farms funded by sources traceable back to Chinese investors or owners has skyrocketed. Chinese owners and workers have become a larger presence at illegal grows in Oklahoma, California and Oregon, they say.
In Oklahoma, close to 3,000 of the state’s nearly 7,000 licensed marijuana farms have been flagged for suspicious activity by law enforcement over the last year. Those operations are now being investigated for obtaining their licenses fraudulently and/or for selling into the illicit market, according to Mark Woodward, spokesperson for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics.
The agency believes that 2,000 of those farms have a Chinese connection — supplying workers, funding or both. Of the more than 800 farms the OBN has shut down in the last two years for operating illegally, Woodward said roughly 75 percent are linked to China.
“I would comfortably say over 600 of those we’ve linked to Chinese investors and Chinese organized crime; some sort of a nexus to back to China,” he
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I knew they were into growing weed but had no idea about the weedweed until i read the headline.
Let’s not get all weedweed up.
Do these dinguses even proofread the crap they post?
It’s Whoopiee’s “weed weed”
Same as they did in Vancouver years ago.
It’s called “Drug Warfare”. Undermine and overwork law enforcement agencies, turn people into hooked zombies, and take in a helluva lot of money, much of which goes back to the CCP to continue to destroy our workers and society.
Oh, goody! Cartels vs. the Tong. Getcher beer and popcorn ready. And yer body armor.
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The title is “The growing Chinese investment in illegal American weed,” not “The growing Chinese investment in illegal American The growing Chinese investment in illegal American weedweed.”
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Huge numbers of Chinese coming in illegally from Mexico.
Don’t be smoking the Don’t be smoking the weedweed when posting
Related to increases in conspiracy theories, anti-defense sentiment, and other unhealthy trends . Marijuana turns people to the left and weakens a nation. So much talk about growing culture of insanity but few willing to talk about the real causes.
The war on drugs worked!
Billions spent and now this.
The reverse opium war is upon us.
Poisonous drugs to make a younger generation stupid and dead.
We are being softened up by an enemy clearly visible and prepped for invasion. Just making a wild guess.
The recon squads. Terrorize and dismantle existing institutions and infrastructure.
The weedweed will soon go up in smoke. We are likely to be stuck with the aliens for life.
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