Illicit marijuana tied to Chinese criminal networks infiltrates Maine
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- čas přidán 15. 04. 2024
- CBS News investigates illicit marijuana grow operations tied to Chinese criminal networks in Maine.
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Let people grow their own and this issue will stoo.
People can grow their own. It's not 1982.
@@jeffdur1330
I've been growing my own since 72.
Just don't tell anyone and don't try to sell it.
The Black Market is an essential part of Capitalism.
@@jeffdur1330 yea you'd think ..
Clark County NV:
Adults 21 years and older can legally grow cannabis plants at home for their personal consumption, but only if there is not a state-licensed retail cannabis store within 25 miles of the home.
The following rules apply:
Up to 6 plants per person, but no more than 12 plants per household
Plants must be grown within a closet, room, greenhouse, or other enclosed area that is equipped with a lock or other security device
Plants must not be visible from a public place
The grower must own the property or have the permission of the legal owner
And there are 3 dispensaries within a one mile radius lol
So... They rent you a pony for your birthday and say "Look! We got you a pony!!" .. Then pony has to go home 😑😂
@@Morgan_Layfay But this was Maine. Every state has their own rules.
ainers can grow cannabis for personal use. As many as six mature, 12 immature plants, and an unlimited number of seedlings are allowed per resident 21 years of age or older.
And NO rules containing to any miles from a dispensary.
Politicians robbing us blind but they worried about a high electric bill😂😂
It should be legal, and we would have much less of these issues.
Fully legalize cannabis and there wouldn’t be these problems!
the same is true for all drugs
No regulation or taxation?
Nah they need to tax it.. but that would make too much sense
@@Mac-po1sr stupidest statement I’ve ever heard😂
They decriminalized it, and then those states went to hell in a hand basket. NOW , they are criminalizing it again.😅
That’s not true bro not at all, it’s legal in California and we got the biggest illegal market place now.
The government has to make their Tax revenues in every way possible. No making money without paying Uncle Sam.
What makes you think you can’t pay?
@@user-iq9qr5cx3hthat’s BS… if it’s legal it’s legal!!! PERIOD… you should be able to grow what you want. It’s state and government legal. How do they know he’s not claiming the money he making?? And in some cases what if they growing for personal reasons?? How about the so called “war on drugs” they supposedly spending all our tax money on!!?? The country Afghanistan own 80% of the poppy farms in the world (which we control now) and we have the biggest heroin epidemic on the planet!! How’s it getting here?? So I don’t wanna hear ish about that what it cost to live in a top tier country bro… bunch of ish
@@user-iq9qr5cx3h only dumb poor people pay taxes. the rich people who actually make money aren't giving it all to uncle sam.
The government is a joke if there not making money from you it's no good, funny how they had to bring fentanyl,and other drugs into it, marijuana was grown on earth all those other drugs where made from man made products.
But then you cry when roads don’t get built
Why make marijuana recreational and you CAN'T grow your OWN smh
Not only can we grow our own, but we have 2 different programs, medical and recreational. As a medical user, I can grow the allowed limit for medical and recreational.
And buying up all the land & real estate too. In other words slowly but surely taking control of this country
China learned this from England when England was flooding H to China back in the day.
Exactly the chickens have come home to roost!!😆🤷♂️
They learned from thier abusers
@@benjamintribe4652England not the US.
@@MrMrabaunza same sht
@@moddedaccount6758 🤡
When you can get a ounce for $100 all day from the dispensaries theres no need for a black market. My old dealer is a roofer now
Your old dealer was selling schwag.
This is why the USA needs to completely legalize weed 💨
Lol bro I think this of china plan bring us down from the inside anyway possible. Americans especially young stoners and jus smoking working at a regular fast food job. There is a reason they call weed a crutch makes a bad situation breathable, why do a lot of poor people smoke weed
That would nip that problem in the BUD
The government can't tax you for growing your own supply!!!
That electric bill would be a dead giveaway
Aahhhhhhhh man!
I remember when it was all in big jars, and you could smell it, and they used chopsticks to weigh out your order right in front of you. Lolol
I hate having to buy sealed packages.
I end up being stuck to a certain brand / flavor that I already know, and it’s hard to try new things.
Hmu
In Az we have it both ways , mylar and open jars .
I don’t buy nothing I can’t smell or see
Go to places that offer "Deli Style" you can get Deli style bud and concentrates, Look and Smell, before you buy. Stop taking your money to places that push sealed opaque bags you cant see the product.
end prohibition of weed in all this would end
This is the third time I'm hearing the Chinese are at it again with this marijuana.
3 guys running all grows in maine😂
China packs everywhere
They’ve been doing it for decades .They’re just more lowkey compared to cartels or street gangs
Lies
I'm starting to think it's all fake news as usual. It's like back in the 2000s when the news kept making up stories about "Islamic terrorist cells" throughout the country about to attack small rural towns, lol!
i love how they still found a way to bring up fenty🤣🤣the new "covid" word
"Marijuana lying all over the place." 😂😂😂Imagine that.
Also same corruption in Oklahoma here where we grow legal medical
The states need to keep all chinese businesses away from here.
No country should be able to come here and start a drug business. The city and county should know of any property that is empty. Then when there is a lot of traffic, they can investigate.
Yeah squatters are one thing and now illegal growers using questionable growing techniques like petro based fertilizers and pest control. Support your local grown with better strains.
China isn't able to come here because of the physical structure of our planet.
Legalize my medicine federally!!!!
Stores sealing white powdered weed😮
Weed is go for you better than Liquor!!👀
It also kills more brain cells.
And tobaccy
The troubling illicit Chinese crime organizations in America is not just illegal marijuana but the amount of it on the streets laced with fentanyl. Not to mention the human trafficking attached as henchmen. Thats the high priority of it all.
No weed is laced with Fentanyl.
Yeah they got the strongest mob around but the prisons have like no Asians somehow lol
Not to Bidens administration it isnt
Meanwhile you got Americans spending their whole paychecks on Chinese products on Amazon, Wish and Temu 😂
Its only illegal because of taxes, majority if not all of laced fentanyl drugs come from Mexican cartels, they do buy the precursor from the triads. Majority of the trafficking triads do is illegally helping people move from one country to another, is it dangerous? absolutely, but I find trafficking woman and children in the states far worse and its done by American gangs or criminal organizations.
😢 this should not be a crime at all.
Once every states legalized marijuana than there would be 80% less black markets growers.
Cartels have been doing it since the 80s
And still doing it today only on a much larger scale!✌🏻🍻🇺🇸
So just fully legalize it and let the value drop and make it less desirable. Quit allowing certain people to profiteer from outdated laws.
So if its legal. Do they get fines for the amount?
I'm concerned with the fertilizers and pesticides and of course eventually fentanyl. Grow your own or support a local grower. I'd like to see the locales test some of this Chinese grown stuff. Cheaper is not better folks.
I remember hearing this like 5 years ago old news
So basically if they had their license to grow, it wouldnt look any different than any other commercial dispensery grow operation
…but there is no problem at the southern border…..
Not as bad as Republicans claim.
I think to some extent prejudice is involved in these political exaggerations.
Can you imagine people were ready to go to war over the price of ☕️ nothing would surprise me .
just legalize it already. no black market if i can grow my own
After seeing this, I am tipping my legal budtenders more.
Just quit. Smoking causes stress.
50 dollar eights bout to bankrupt me in chi town i got so used to the dispensary 😔
1000 dollars a month to work 24 hours 😂😂😂
They made legal to cut down on crime not support it?;!?
So MAKE IT LEGAL and give the profits to LOCAL INVESTORS
Stop lying for them, they know very well what they are doing, they didn't come here under no false pretence.
Legally = bigger market.
Bigger market = competition
Competition = illicit black market
Legal = less search
Less search = black market
@@beethao9380 👍 well said
I’m in central California and i grow my own it’s super hard to grow the right way. If you order a full unit u get it in 2 or 3 days ticket is cheap cheap
Time to legalize cannabis!
Enjoy your laced pot 😂
@@penitenttangent7346
lol…you sound like my mom did in the 90s. I’ll ask you the same thing I always asked her:
This guy that takes pot…charges you only for the amount you want…and also puts extra drugs into it for free…
You got his number?
I agree but that still wont stop illegal grow operations
Just Legalized in all states???
It’s easier to disappear in a big city vs the country
Garland is on the case and will do nothing.
How can you make a plant that the earth created illegal
I have that SAME EXACT 1000w Hortilux HPS grow light hanging at 1:33 😂😂😂
All the really horrible things seem to come from China.
Thank Biden 😊
First of all, marijuana is not a deadly drug. It is safer than alcohol. Make it legal for medical and personal use and you don’t have to worry about that type of issues. People would rather buy medical than black market for the reason of fear of fentanyl
They came with the legal legislation
Just make the good drugs legal again so we can buy the good stuff at the drug store
Why not legalize weed nationwide & eliminate this criminal issue??
Some of us just dont care about it’s illegalities. Weed has been illegal yet available in EVERY COUNTRY Ive travelled, in some places its a death sentence, and still prevalent with the right peeps, let that sink in.
A lot of states make money of illegality and profit hand over fist. That is the reason
I every state that's completely legal illicit grows exist. They don't have to test and if a sample is tested you'll find all kinds of adulterants.
When do you think it's about time to sound the alarm about the dirty labor unions in New York City. What about the ghost employees at the Dock Workers. Sound the Alarm it's been going on for 100 years😢
This is what happens when you don’t legalize cannabis nation wide. How do we stop this. Legalizing the rest of the country.
How are they victims if tthey're growing marijuana illegally?? So stupid 😅😅😅😂😂
With every struggle come relief My friend 💪🏿✊🏿
If the electric co. would inform police would a large amount of electricity, then we could be on top of within a month.
They are not trying to stop their Mafia partners. Mexicans or Chinese
They got LED grow lights now they use minimal lectricity
Not when there’s that many plants bud. That’s going to be a huge spike
@@juelz4516 maybe so I got 22 Gorilla Glues and my electric is basically the same
If the government wasn’t so concerned about getting paid off it these issues would solve themselves
I love when they make up numbers 😭😭 1 million is wild unless they’re absolutely milking the value of all 2600 plants
Did she say the officers name was Chief Keef? lmao
Sounds like a small grow
They have huge grow operations here in bay area all Chinese
When you smoke it it gives you squinty eyes.
Send me some 😂
He said clam and log all in the same sentence.
Marijuana and fentanyl are pretty much the same exact thing too
Transportation would be the main issue
Need to get their priorities straight
Let us grow
The power drain alone should be the dead giveaway. The cartels do the same stuff in California but on Federal lands or rented houses.
My family is from that hole in the wall lol
They are not that dense to only receive $1000 dollars a month. That amount is a petty crime. They will be released. The cops want the big guys.
In California I can get $10 1/8th at my dispensary why Go to the black market where they use pesticides
Just free the plant already so many worst things you can be taken care of absolutely ridiculous
So where's this "illicit marijuana" ending up? In the streets, at dispensaries, at dude's crib down the road? Is it legal for People to grow their own for personal use in Maine? What if it wasn't declared a drug - like before the 1930's - maybe there'd be less confusion about a plant that has many beneficial uses. 🌱🌎
This is why I buy my weed from my local dealer. He makes sure to test it before I try it
Sure he 'tests' it!
@@GlennDuke-yc5ky ya smokes it with me everytime
Damn, sucks to live in Maine smh
Grow your own!
i'm from Oklahoma and you're on that anything for a headline clickbait
Doesn't help state law makers are pushing customers away from the legal market with remediation, nobody wants weed that smells and tastes like hay from being microwaved or washed with hydrogen peroxide to remove microscopic mold spores that will not harm you.
Federal government, Law enforcement, DEA, they need this to be illegal to have a PURPOSE.
About 2 billion dollar worth of drugs come into the US yearly. To fight that, it costs roughly 10 billion a year. Let that sink in.
@@beethao9380show any proof of your claim
Enemies within want to to beleive china is the enemy.
So if the Weed growers would have used generators they wouldn't have gotten caught
These cops aren’t smart. Just go check the local energy companies and you’ll catch the criminals
seriously CBS this is you're stories, marijuana, get over it.
They're using the profits from weed to flood the streets with fentanyl. Did you listen to the story you're complaining about? Or are you too busy being over it?
I LIVED IN MAINE FOR 4 YEARS, I WAS MISERABLE AND SAW NEEDLES ON GROUND WALKING TO SCHOOL, HOW ABOUT FIXING THAT FIRST? GLAD I LIVE OUT WEST NOW. THE EAST IS SO LAME.
Yeah the west has it figured out
@@jeepernj99😂😂
Get over it. Government not making ALL the money?
The legal market has been created for taxation.
The original black market sales were to individuals and largely grown by fellow consumers.
The new black market, is different. When states like Washington established their legal markets, they created a divided supply, distribution, and sales market.
Producers are not selling their cannabis directly to the consumer.
This divided market approach works well for taxation, but leaves the user without adequate safety measures.
Retailers will refund/exchange cannabis oil cartridges for mechanical malfunctions, but will not return/exchange other cannabis products for safety or quality reasons.
Not only will they not guarantee the products they sell, they get upset when product safety is brought up for discussion.
The regulating authority, has failed the consumer and created the pathway for the "new black market".
"Farm to table" is the solution to the current safety crisis that the State regulating agency has created.
Consumers buying directly from the producer, with quality and safety reporting pathways established.
Why is Washington State profiting millions of dollars from tax revenue, without adequate safety measures for the consumer?
Additionally, overproduction and distribution has made bad cannabis spread farther faster.
Regional production and distribution would limit the spread of bad cannabis products.
Yeah, and its pissing off the legal growers.
They are popping up all over the state.
"Take EVERYTHING, leave them NOTHING yarrrrr!!!!" -Pot Pirate
"Black Market Marijuana" just means the state isn't getting their cut if its sold. Recreationally legal, you can buy as much as you want at once, and every adult is allowed to also grow 12 veg/6 flowering plants at a time. At 1 million adults, that's a potential18 million marijuana plants. Buy a grower's license and you can grow even more. Plus large dispensary companies. There are weed stores across the street from weed stores, but this is framed as some kind of threat?
It's a great way to control the people, especially the government weed
In all of these United States, weed should be legal without restrictions. The price would drop dramatically and there wouldn’t be any illicit activity. Also, Fentanyl isn’t more deadly than marijuana; marijuana isn’t deadly at all.
This was a conspiracy theory on Reddit around Christmas the guy said the Triads wre grown shity weed in Maine and everybody told him he was crazy and watching too many movies
They need to crackdown on the legal marijuana laws
quite the stretch
Used to summer in Machiasport and Jonesport Maine, way up in Washington county!! Would think anyone Asian would stand out in the old-timer’s area…
Lots of crime going on here in Maine