A funny thing happened on the way to cannabis legalization: illegal pot is still big business.
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50 Lawmakers Demand Answers from AG Garland Over CCP-Linked Marijuana Farms→
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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).
Read MoreCalifornia’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 MoreFact Checking Misleading Claims that California’s Cannabis Industry Is Suffering→
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Since late 2021, cannabis powerbrokers have unleashed a no-holds-barred offensive in hopes of extracting reduced taxes and regulation from local and state elected officials.
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 MoreDoes marijuana legalization work? The answer is a resounding No.→
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In a powerful review of how Colorado is doing since legalizing marijuana for medical use in 2009 and for recreational use in 2014, David Murray of the Hudson Institute suggests the answer is a resounding “No.”
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 MoreFake Businesses Are Fooling Real Banks Into Processing Online Drug Purchases→
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Fraudsters are setting up fake online businesses to process payments for drugs and other illegal goods. Middlemen are aiding them—sometimes accidentally, sometimes not.
Read MoreAfter Nearly Two Years of Legal Pot, What’s Working?
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Proposition 64 (November 2016) promised voters in California several key things in exchange for a vote to “legalize.” Have any of those promises been kept?
Read MoreReasons Marijuana Legalization Seems To Be Failing→
/One of the biggest arguments made by cannabis advocates when trying to sell their spiel to politicians and voters was that legal weed would eliminate the black market. This, they said, would make it more difficult for children to get their hands on pot than in decades past while also generating significant tax revenue for the states. But the underground pot trade hasn’t really gone anywhere. In fact, it is only growing stronger now that criminal organizations have the luxury of being domestically based instead of running distribution from Mexico.
Read MoreLegalizing Marijuana Has Created a Black Market Plaguing Riverside County→
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There is a new sheriff in Riverside County, and he is attacking the illegal marijuana cultivation that’s plaguing his community in Southern California. Sheriff Chad Bianco was elected in November 2018, and has taken on the growing black market with a vengeance.
Read MoreWhere's the pot? California tracking system unlikely to know→
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When California voters broadly legalized marijuana, they were promised that a vast computer platform would closely monitor products moving through the new market. But 16 months after sales kicked in, the system known as track-and-trace isn’t doing much of either. As of last month, just nine retail outlets were entering data into the network established under an estimated $60 million state contract, even though 627 shops are licensed to sell pot in California. The rate of participation is similarly slim for other sectors in the emerging industry.
Read More‘Getting Worse, Not Better’: Illegal Pot Market Booming in California Despite Legalization→
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It’s been a little more than a year since California legalized marijuana — the largest such experiment in the United States — but law enforcement officials say the unlicensed, illegal market is still thriving and in some areas has even expanded.
Read MoreThe Marijuana Delusion→
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States rush to legalize recreational pot, even as evidence of its harms grows.
Read MoreLegal? Illegal? Some players still work both sides of state marijuana industry→
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During the 21 years that California’s multibillion-dollar unregulated medical marijuana market thrived, cannabis operators learned to create elaborate schemes to disguise their connections to unlicensed shops. And now that some operators are also tied to valuable licensed businesses, Montes said, double dippers have become even more careful about burying their identities.
Read MoreI spent a night in the NJ marijuana black market. The illegal weed business is booming.→
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While legislators debate the details of NJ marijuana legalization, the black market is bigger than ever. we spent a night at a marijuana "pop-up" and saw chocolate bars and brownies, oils and vape cartridges and huge jars of illegal weed.
Read MoreArguments for Marijuana Legalization are Lies
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Lies were used to fool voters in states where marijuana “medicalization” or legalization was on the ballot and the lies continue to be foisted on the public for political power and money. Let me identify and answer a few of the lies.
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 MoreDespite Legalization, Marijuana Black Market Hides In Plain Sight→
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Legalization was supposed to end pot smuggling, but that hasn't worked out.
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