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  • Oklahoma reckons with environmental costs of marijuana industry

    10/05/2026 3:53:57 PM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 20 replies
    Channel 3000/The Oklahoman ^ | October 5, 2026 | Ben Fenwick
    When Oklahoma lawmakers finally gave Sheriff Jim Mullett the go-ahead, he began to rein in Garvin County’s marijuana businesses and shut down the illegal ones. Mullett said there were 470 grows in the county in 2021. With the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, the state attorney general’s office and other local, state and federal agencies, Mullett said he and his deputies brought the number of grow sites down to 33. But what happens to all the stuff left behind — including the land, chemicals and agricultural equipment? “What’s going on in, around the state of Oklahoma, is...