So interesting this topic gets squashed once
Was even before that noted in Current Events
and now has hit again on NPR
IMO this would driving up housing prices, too.
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This is happening in California also. I donât see a problem when anyone is free to come in and start a business. If you ban China directly then they will just use proxies like they already do. What about Americans of Chinese descent? Do they get banned also? What about half China, half US? What about other countries? Plenty of other countries doing this also. Noone says shit about that. âNational Public radioâ is really the proper name right now.
If this is concerning then all you can do is lobby to have our entire economic policy/laws changed because previously this was also able to occur but public sentiment/racism stopped it. Let us not forget thisâŠ
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I do not think they are suggesting racism
Merely that workers be protected, whether illegal or not
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it sure doesnât sound like it has anything to do with protecting workers. it seems to suggest something to do with the housing market, although i fail to see that connection.
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ârun by chinaâ? Are you suggesting the chinese state is involved, because people are tagged chinese by the justice/medias? Are chinese assigned people less legit to run illegal weed ops?
Iâm not sure to get the question. Are we on a real estate forum?
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Maybe read the article. It goes into how the workers are exploited.
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Iâll see if I can find the article I read, but the impression I came away with was that Chinese maybe individuals, maybe the government, are growing weed in legal states to then sell on the black market, possibly in other states black market as well. To fund bullshit government activities.
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It ainât new that cartels/triads/mobs/etc are using leverages on migrants to do various more or less nasty things for them.
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Iâm not saying this is the case, but it wouldnât be the first time government organizations ran drugs to fund illicit operations. My money is mainly on gangs though.
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I was just thinking that what was being described a few posts up was exactly like this.
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Kind of how our government does with cocaine and heroin. And now seizures of legal cannabis within 200 miles of the southern border.
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Sorry it isnât obvious. Maybe read the references? There are other links.
âThis is a statewide problem,â Mercier said. âThe information we have says that thereâs over 200 (facilities) that are actively working right now.â
So that many ops certainly would affect at least the price locally. Even depress the price in other (legal) markets. Not just 200 houses bought up.
But then it all just some conspiracy theory right?
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I mean just gotta read between the bullshit.
This federal memo never surfaced.
Check out the names on the California license list.
https://search.cannabis.ca.gov/results?searchQuery=
Total Results Found: 18849
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Do they grow good shit tho?
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If you spend any time at grow shops in Maine, youâve known about this for years
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This is the kind of news they run when they want to scare the public into regulation.
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How can you take seriously something said by someone called SlamPigFartFucker? 
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What i have seen in Europe is that Asian pot farms goes hand in hand with human trafficing. Donât underestimate how big these organisations are. Here in Europe they found illegale immigrants at pot farms kept as slaves to work on the pot farm. Some were working there already for over 2.5 years and never went out of the pot farm, no contact with outside world, working 24-7 to pay of their âdebtâ not knowing when they are a free human.
It is an absolute tragedy.
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Thats just a link posted to a Rural Maine reddit. The original article has a paywall. I ended up finding out there was no source and no memo. The article is BS.
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The Asians have been running large operations in damn near every state for decades now. And the Iran Contra reminds me of what theyâre doing with fentanyl these days.
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