Posted on 01/01/2026 2:24:36 PM PST by DFG
A string of deadly shootings connected to Oklahoma marijuana farms — including a quadruple execution and a home-invasion murder — has exposed a shadow network tied to New York money, organized crime and groups with links to China, according to a new report.
Authorities told the New York Times that the operations were fueled by out-of-state cash, concealed ownership and lax marijuana laws — allowing criminal groups to scale up illicit grows, exploit immigrant labor and divert massive amounts of weed into the black market.
The trail led investigators far from rural Oklahoma to New York City, where real estate figures, political fundraisers and leaders of Chinese hometown associations allegedly bankrolled or backed the farms — groups that lawmakers say have ties to Beijing and have drawn scrutiny from federal authorities.
Oklahoma’s wide-open medical marijuana law, which placed no limits on how much licensed growers could produce, created fertile ground for the scheme, investigators say, flooding the state with oversized grows that far outpaced local demand and fueled an illegal interstate trade.
One central figure was New York real estate developer John Lam, a major fundraiser for former Mayor Eric Adams. Lam built at least 50 projects in the city and, according to the Times, bought a $1.5 million Oklahoma marijuana farm for his protégé Wyan Wang while later insisting he was merely an unpaid landlord with no role in day-to-day operations.
Wang was found shot dead in his Edmond, Okla., bedroom in January 2025, lying face-down and still gripping a bloody kitchen knife investigators said he used to try to fend off intruders during a targeted home-invasion robbery — one of a string of violent attacks tied to the cash-heavy marijuana trade in the state.
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Sounds like the show “Tulsa King”.
Asians don’t trust banks so they keep cash around. Home invasions are common.
Beat me to it.
Nothing comes good from legalized marijuana
Wait ... what?
If a bunch of stoners sat around and voted on the way to deliberately screw things up, they couldn't do worse than the okies who legalized this.
Yep, Tulsa King. You wrote it so I don’t have to.
Months before this happened someone on a radio talk show interview said some of the Chinese “agricultural” land purchases were housing and training military age men as terrorist warriors organized as gangs. Only a matter of “when” not “if” they do their dirty deeds in the US. Some of the “farms” are Chinese marijuana farms. Growing “as high as an elephant’s eye.” (Oklahoma).
By the way, it is illegal for an American to buy even one square foot of land in China. What do we think, they’re crazy or something?
Americans grovel....I hate it.
True statement.
But, you should have seen all the local yokels lining up to cash in.
Also big, ag-school educated big ag up to its eyeballs in getting the law changed and then the “bonanza” that followed...
Not naming any names...
Please do name them.
Here is one of Tucker Carlson’s stories on the Chinese Mafia growing pot in Maine. The penalties are minor for less than 40 pounds :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE2AVar-XNc
Oklahoma legislators created a monstrosity they are now terrified of and can’t reign in. The public is paying the price.
Wasn’t legal weed supposed to end the black market and the criminality surrounding the trade?
There’s a show on tv about a bunch of red necks making moon shine.
How about one called “Meth Lab’’?
My wife, raised in Tulsa, about 57 years ago was laughing at a TV show about organized crime.
Her mom said...”Don’t laugh! That is happening here in Tulsa right now!”
I still remember when Cleo Epps was found murdered back in 1970.
At the steel fabrication plant where I worked, at lunch, one man brought up the subject of her disappearance.
Another said “I don’t give a s-— about Cleo Epps!”
The first man said..”Well I do! She’s my Aunt!”
Biggest meth lab in NW Arkansas was busted about 20 years ago less than 100 yards from my house. Local police knew about it and did nothing. It took State Police to raid it. The trailer was so contaminate they pulled it off into an isolated area and let it sit for over a year to air it out before tearing it apart.
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