A bipartisan group of 50 senators and House members are requesting Attorney General Merrick Garland to provide information on illegal marijuana cultivation operations in the United States that are tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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California’s Marijuana Paradise Lost→
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The black market in pot proliferates despite legalization.
Read MoreThe dark reality of legal weed in California→
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When Proposition 64, California’s landmark cannabis initiative, passed in 2016, it had sold voters on the promise that a legal market would wipe out the drug’s outlaw business and the violence and environmental disaster associated with it.
Instead, it’s done the opposite.
Read MoreThieves are stealing California’s scarce water. Where’s it going? Illegal marijuana farms→
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As drought grips most of California, water thefts have increased to record levels. Thieves tap into hydrants, pump water from rivers and break into remote water stations and tanks.
Read MoreIllegal marijuana growers pose threat to North State→
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Drug trafficking. Murder. Millions of acres of illegal marijuana fields. Most Californians assume the best place to look for these stories is their preferred streaming service, but they are taking place in our own backyard.
Read MoreA mother’s search for missing son leads to dark world of a marijuana dispensary→
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Hernández’s mother knew in her gut something wasn’t right when her son didn’t return from his job at a marijuana dispensary. She did the only things she could: She called the police and she started looking.
Read MoreCalifornia is awash in cannabis cash. Some is being used to bribe public officials→
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In the more than two years since California voters approved the licensed growing and sale of recreational marijuana, the state has seen a half-dozen government corruption cases as black-market operators try to game the system, through bribery and other means. The cases are tarnishing an already troubled roll-out of the state permitting of pot businesses as provided for when voters approved Proposition 64 in November 2016.
Read MoreForeign cartels embrace home-grown marijuana in pot-legal states→
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Foreign gangs are finding that black-market marijuana is profitable even in states that have legalized cannabis.
Read MoreBlack market marijuana busts nearly quadruple under recreational legalization→
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Four years after legal recreational marijuana went on sale in Colorado, Gov. John Hickenlooper says the black market for marijuana in the state is shrinking and predicted that it "will be largely gone" in a few years.
But new statistics show that arrests for the production of black market pot increased by 380 percent in the 2014-16 time frame, and Colorado law enforcement agencies say they are battling a boom in illegal marijuana cultivation by sometimes violent groups of criminals who rake in millions of dollars by exporting what they grow.
Read MoreIllegal Pot Shops Are Opening Faster Than San Diego County Can Shut Them Down→
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San Diego County has banned pot dispensaries in its unincorporated areas, but the Sheriff's Department can't enforce the ban, because the locations that are shut down just re-open. Spring Valley has become the Wild West for illegal pot shops.
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