After Oklahoma voters approved a ballot measure that legalized the cultivation and sale of marijuana for medicinal purposes, the state became flooded with out-of-state investors looking to capitalize on the weed boom.
State investigators have found links between foreign mafias and over 3,000 illegal growing operations, known in the industry as “grows.” And they say that more than 80% of the criminal groups are of Chinese origin.
This story of a quadruple murder on a marijuana farm, an investigation by ProPublica and The Frontier, shows how the Chinese underworld has come to dominate the booming illicit trade not only in Oklahoma but across the country.
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