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Not sure if a white conservative could get away with this but one group is making a killing. The Justice Dept seems unconcerned.


Triad Weed: How Chinese Marijuana Grows Took Over Rural Maine

https://www.themainewire.com/2...-are-all-over-maine/


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It's not just illegal grows, but legal ones as well, as evidenced by Oklahoma. Despite laws put in place by OK when medicinal marijuana was legalized in 2018 to attempt to ensure marijuana farms weren't foreign-owned, a big portion of them are actually owned and run by Chinese criminal organizations via either outright fraudulent records and applications, or sometimes a token US citizen on the paperwork to meet the minimum requirements of US ownership percentage. (They pay off a local to agree to be on the paperwork and not ask any questions, but the Chinese group handles all the business and collects all the profits.)

Of the 6300 licensed marijuana operations in OK, it's believed that around half of them have foreign organized crime ties. They've already shut down nearly 1000 because of that, and are investigating at least 3000 more. Mostly Chinese groups, but also Mexican cartels, and a smattering of Eastern European organized crime groups (Serbian, Armenian, Russian, etc.)

There's been a big uptick in organized crime violence over there as a result, along with related stuff like human trafficking.
 
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^ So much for "everything will be fine if we just legalize and tax it." Roll Eyes
 
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Comes as no surprise to me.

I wasn't aware it was that bad, but with drugs - any drugs - comes crime.

Another reason to carry at all times and in all places it's legal, and avoid the places where it's not.




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"Pot! I'm afraid you must be mistaken. These are just more low bush blueberries."


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Of the 6300 licensed marijuana operations in OK, it's believed that around half of them have foreign organized crime ties. They've already shut down nearly 1000 because of that, and are investigating at least 3000 more. Mostly Chinese groups, but also Mexican cartels, and a smattering of Eastern European organized crime groups (Serbian, Armenian, Russian, etc.)

There's been a big uptick in organized crime violence over there as a result, along with related stuff like human trafficking.


 
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Every year we had to attend a "legal update" seminar that was put on by the county prosecutor's office. The last one I attended, the assistant prosecutor told us "don't bring me any pot cases unless you have seized enough to equal the size of a bale of hay". And this was before legalization.
Pot generates money which invites organized crime.


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Nobody really believed legalization was going to get rid of organized crime in the weed trade, did they?




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