9 Sept: ABC: With 7 dead, California pot ranch is tied to organized crime
Authorities say an illegal marijuana growing operation where seven people were fatally shot in a small, rural Southern California town had the markings of organized crime
By ELLIOT SPAGAT and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press
All seven victims and witnesses were Laotian, Bianco said. Six people were found dead on the property, and a woman who was shot there died later at a hospital...
Laotian involvement in illegal marijuana harvesting has grown over the last decade in California’s agricultural heartland. People from the relatively small community account for much of the pot growing in backyards and on prime farmland.
Large cannabis growing operations typically have hundreds of thousands of dollars of product at each site, making them attractive targets for criminals.
“That’s why the violence becomes worse and worse,” Kiloh said.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fatally-shot-illegal-california-marijuana-growing-site-72877189
OK, Chicken Little.
9 Sept: ABC: With 7 dead, California pot ranch is tied to organized crime [...]
No evidence there that legalization made things far worse; before legalization, organized crime were the ONLY ones growing commercial quantities of pot.