Posted on 03/03/2024 5:01:29 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Chinese gangs have set up thousands of illicit weed farms across the US as they begin to challenge Mexican cartels for supremacy as America's cannabis kingpins.
Authorities in Oklahoma, Oregon, California, New Mexico and Maine have all been battling a surge in Chinese weed farms, with some thought to be linked to criminal gangs known as 'triads'.
The spread is seemingly uncontainable, with police in Penobscot County, Maine, last week arresting three Chinese nationals at a weed farm and seizing 40 pounds of the drug alongside $4,700 in cash.
It is thought to be one of around 270 illegal weed farms worth more than $4billion that have sprung up across the state since it legalized the drug in 2020.
Local law enforcement has carried out multiple busts already this year.
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Yup. The ill man of Asia is taking his revenge.
FBI gives us the Sergeant Shultz response: “I know nothing, nothing.”
Trusting the same government that is allowing this into the country with their open border policies to actually fight this is what's making things worse.
This is what legalizing weed does.
Wonder where they are going to get their first job in the US. Do we have any clues?
Arizona is a particular problem. The rMcCain political machine is still a big player. The late senator's father in law, a beer distributor, was an associate of the Chicago Outfit. He was neither Italian nor Jewish, but the Outfit was an equal opportunity employee. In recent years, the cartels have replaced the Outfit as the principal underworld operator. The McCain machine in league with the Democrats now control the statewide officials.
California is an upfront leftist takeover, essentially an American version of Cuba or Venezuela. The Federal presence, even under Biden, is all that keeps the state from full blown Communism.
How many border county sheriffs in Texas are on the payroll of the Mexican cartels? Even under Trump, with better control over illegal immigration, the drug flow continued due to the profit margins. New Mexico has a short border with Mexico with few roads through desert country.
Next to cleaning out the military and the Federal police bureaucracy, the top priority for a second Trump administration must be to seal the border. Not only Mexico but also Canada.
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