Even as legal marijuana becomes more common, the market for illegal pot thrives across the US. And as an investigation by ProPublica and the Frontier makes clear, that market.
Even as legal marijuana becomes more common, the market for illegal pot thrives across the US. And as an investigation by ProPublica and the Frontier makes clear, that market is increasingly dominated by organized crime outfits from China. “The mobsters operate in a loose but disciplined confederation overseen from New York by mafias rooted in southern China,” the story explains. They set up farms in states where marijuana cultivation is legal—the story focuses on Oklahoma in particular—and smuggle in Chinese immigrants from Mexico to work the high-security farms under abusive conditions.
