China supports vast network of illegal U.S. pot farms: Law enforcement

Chinese organized crime, with support from the Chinese government, is behind a nationwide network of U.S. weed farms supplying the illegal market, law enforcement and policy experts told a U.S. House of Representatives panel this week. Their testimony and the ensuing discussion focused more on these farms as a threat to national security than questions of legalization.

Though the phenomenon seems to have begun in California about a decade ago, the issue has attracted attention in other states including Oklahoma where . . .