This isn’t news to anyone who has been following the pot business in California. Not the “legal one” which proved to be a mostly worthless boom up there with cryptocurrency. Just ask Med Men which wanted to be the Apple of drugs. The illegal one though is increasingly looking like it’s Made in China even when it’s grown in America.
Mexican cartels have a long history of importing, growing and redistributing illicit cannabis in the United States. But Chinese investors, owners and workers have emerged in recent years as a new source of funding and labor for illegal marijuana production.
What is known — from interviews with state law enforcement officials, experts on the international drug trade, economists and lawmakers — is that the number of farms funded by sources traceable back to Chinese investors or owners has skyrocketed. Chinese owners and workers have become a larger presence at illegal grows in Oklahoma, California and Oregon, they say.
In Oklahoma, close to 3,000 of the state’s nearly 7,000 licensed marijuana farms have been flagged for suspicious activity by law enforcement over the last year… The agency believes that 2,000 of those farms have a Chinese connection — supplying workers, funding or both. Of the more than 800 farms the OBN has shut down in the last two years for operating illegally, Woodward said roughly 75 percent are linked to China.
“I would comfortably say over 600 of those we’ve linked to Chinese investors and Chinese organized crime; some sort of a nexus to back to China,” he said.
Law enforcement in southern Oregon in 2021 reported as many as 20 different nationalities linked to illegal grows. But the increasing amount of Chinese funding — and what lawmakers and some experts say is the potential influence of the Chinese Communist Party — has caught the attention of legislators and law enforcement alike.
Give the PRC credit, they’ve found plenty of ways to profit from waging total war against us. But that’s mainly because we let them do it. Every single one of the death of a thousand cuts is a weapon we’ve given to our enemies to use against us.
Mo de Profit says
If there was any justice in this world all Chinese assets would have been confiscated when they developed the virus and the injections in cahoots with the World pHarma Organisation.
All inward investment in China should have been stopped immediately too.
But no, the globalist elites were too busy trying to take advantage of the human fear.
Jeff Bargholz says
Good point that we Americans allow the Chicoms to attack us. Take fetanyl, for example. An obvious plan to murder Americans.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks Jeff, good point. China flooding USA with fentanyl is a good example of asymmetrical warfare.
Una Salus says
“China’s top leader Xi Jinping makes a point of reminding his audience of the time after the Opium War (1839-42), when China was “gradually reduced by foreign powers to a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society that suffered greater ravages than ever before”, bringing “intense humiliation for the country” and “great pain for its people” (Xi Jinping 2021).”
Ugly Sid says
Thanksgiving day, 1950.
Lysander Spooner says
America’s drug trade is made in america by people who would like to consume drugs.
For some reason most Americans insist on lying to themselves and everyone else about this.
Una Salus says
That’s what every pusher pushes,
Lysander Spooner says
true.
like Merck, Pfizer, Budweiser, Bayer, Starbucks, Trump wine, etc etc