Posted on 01/21/2026 9:10:53 AM PST by CFW
The Maine State Police (MSP) were part of a massive enforcement action Wednesday against Yezi Craft Cannabis, a.k.a. Yezi USA, LLC, on Norridgewock Road in Fairfield, a Chinese-controlled cannabis company with a checkered history and multiple disciplinary actions.
Although the details of Wednesday’s enforcement actions at 201 Norridgewock Road are still filtering in, the locations history and ties to Chinese organized crime are apparent from public records from the Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP).
Yezi Craft Cannabis and its related companies are a prime example of how Maine’s labyrinthine cannabis rules are no match for sophisticated criminal groups from out of state.
Enforcement records released by Maine’s Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) shed light on how Chinese operators routinely exploit and subvert weaknesses in Maine’s legal cannabis programs to continue profiting from their illegal schemes, even after an attempted crackdown by regulators.
In previous reports, the Maine Wire has documented how Johnny Wu and Jason Tsai attempted to operate licensed marijuana businesses before veering into purely black market endeavors. Wu and Tsai are no longer operating in Maine’s cannabis sector — at least no the legal side — but Shunwang Ding and Shengcheng Ye, both associates of the Green Future LLC crew, appear to have kept their storefront in business despite enforcement actions from OCP.
The Yezi location was purchased in Sept. 2021 and quickly converted into a combination marijuana grow and store front.
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It’s time we all tell the Government to take their taxes and shove them up their a$$e$.
There’s a demand for Chinese pot in Maine?
Who knew?
“...It’s time we all tell the Government to take their taxes and shove them up their a$$e$....”
Actually, it’s waaaayyyyyyy past time.
it’s basically “legalized theft” of other people’s money.
“..There’s a demand for Chinese pot in Maine? Who knew?...”
We spend a good deal of time up there in the summer.
There’s a HUGE demant for pot, Chinese or otherwise.
We find it amazing because most of areas of the state are so economically depressed, but the dopers managed to find the money to buy pot.
Where do they get the money as that crap ain’t cheap? Well, it’s our tax dollars ar work. Spit.
That doesn’t surprise me one bit.
I couldn’t agree more.
Exactly.
Swell, only what? over 270 more to go? Weird that they know how many there are, but not where they are so they can shut them down
Triad Weed: How Chinese Marijuana Grows Took Over Rural Maine
https://www.themainewire.com/2023/11/triad-weed-illegal-chinese-marijuana-grows-are-all-over-maine/
There was a guy from the Maine Wire that was on Shawn Ryan’s podcast and a few others.
He stated the Chinese criminal gangs started buying houses in Maine when they legalized it. They now own 500 houses mostly in rural economically depressed towns. Like where he grew up in Dexter, ME. Where the famous shoe company went out of business.
The Chinese criminal gangs buy the houses. They then bring in the young Chinese men who somehow become indebted to those gangs over in the old country(China).
They are then basically slaves to these gangs until they pay off their debt.
The marijuana is grown in Maine, but then trucked to MA, RI, CT, NY and elsewhere and sold. Either to the dispenceries or sold illegally undercutting the legal pot shops.
They are growing it in Maine because they can buy the houses much cheaper there than anywhere else within 500 miles of NYC. Plus you have the I95 Interstate running from northern Maine all the way to Miami.
This is why there have been so many young Chinese men coming to the USA. The men that basically have a ticket and plan to get to the border(north or south). Then are picked up after they get to a camp. Then they are brought by car to the grow house where they will live and tend the crop.
Apparently the Chinese are also doing this in Oklahoma and California
IOW, Maine is not getting their tax income.
This is but another reason why I oppose Trump’s idea to bring in 600,000 Chinese immigrants.
Taxation is theft.
I’m guessing that the young Chinese men enslaved in these places are illegal aliens.
Maine is cold enough but they need more ICE.
Good START. The governor is part of this
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