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There's an entire underground network of these weed farms and it poses a national security threat. The feds don't have enough agents well versed in Chinese culture and language to properly deal with it nor are they trying to at the moment since marijuana isn't exactly a big enforcement priority.

I wonder if the push to reschedule has anything to do with this. I realize it’s an election year and hot topics like rescheduling or decriminalization more often than not gets brought up during an election year.

According to one of my college acquantainces turned Weed entrepreneur it's because Oklahoma's Marijuana growing regulation is extremely libertarian.

There are almost no checks and oversight into who gets the license to start a growing operation, licensing is cheap ($1,000), you're fairly close to the border so it's easy to get undocumented labor, OK is a major transit hub for trucking so smuggling is easy, and there is a well established Chinese community (mixed Vietnamese-Chinese and mainland Chinese) in both Tulsa and OKC that are mostly ethnic Fujianese.

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