A quadruple murder in Oklahoma shows how the Chinese underworld has come to dominate the booming illicit trade, fortifying its rise as a global powerhouse with alleged ties to China’s authoritarian regime.
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Black market cannabis thrives in California despite legalization→
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A funny thing happened on the way to cannabis legalization: illegal pot is still big business.
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 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 MoreAs legalization of pot ramps up in California what should citizens be considering?
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The “medipot” industry has been lawless. Those willing to break the law are not likely to obey new, weak and unenforced regulations. Local law enforcement throughout the state, including our own Chief Zimmerman pled for banning commercial pot drug dealing operations. Most jurisdictions in the state have listened. Sadly several cities, including San Diego City, have not.
Read MoreProposition 64: New law should be cause for broad alarm
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It is clear that California is no longer the Golden State. California does poorly in education and in measures of children’s well-being. With only 12 percent of the nation’s population, California has 33 percent of those on the nation’s welfare rolls. Homelessness and drug use are skyrocketing and the two are connected. None of these issues will be improved with more pot commercialization and use. Other problems of the state will be made worse as well.
Read MoreCALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION THROWS IN THE TOWEL TO LEGALIZING POT→
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The approved medical conditions in California are limitless and anyone age 18 and over can get a card. Today tens of thousands of 18-20-year-olds in California are getting recreational pot this way. Legalization will not stop this problem, and in fact will intensify the problem by making it more available to younger children.
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