{"id":10320,"date":"2023-03-30T22:36:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T22:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10320"},"modified":"2023-03-30T22:36:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T22:36:24","slug":"the-growing-chinese-investment-in-illegal-american-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10320","title":{"rendered":"The growing Chinese investment in illegal American weed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Despite the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s strict stance on drugs, the triads \u2014 which run global crime networks distributing chemicals needed to manufacture methamphetamine and fentanyl, among other potentially dangerous substances \u2014 often curry favor with the CCP by functioning as extralegal enforcers for the government, Felbab-Brown said. The CCP in turn often allows them to continue their operations, though it does not control them.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Roughly 75 percent of the $100 billion cannabis market in the U.S. remains illegal, and roughly two thirds of that illicit weed is grown domestically&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;In California, the Department of Cannabis Control says Chinese triads have been nominally involved in illegal cannabis production for decades, but that there\u2019s been a recent increase in the number of actors and money that may have originated in China. The DCC also said that some \u2014 but not all \u2014 of the Chinese-funded grows they\u2019ve encountered are operated by Chinese triads.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;\u201cThis notion that you now have Chinese actual funding for illicit cannabis, it\u2019s definitely new, and it cuts directly across the interests of Mexican drug trafficking groups,\u201d said Felbab-Brown. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting to see whether it continues growing, [and] how that\u2019s going to affect relations between the Mexicans and the Chinese [criminal groups].\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/03\/21\/illicit-cannabis-china-00086125\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/03\/21\/illicit-cannabis-china-00086125<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Despite the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s strict stance on drugs, the triads \u2014 which run global crime networks distributing chemicals needed to manufacture methamphetamine and fentanyl, among other potentially dangerous substances \u2014 often curry favor with the CCP by functioning as extralegal enforcers for the government, Felbab-Brown said. The CCP in turn often allows them to continue their operations, though it does not control them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roughly 75 percent of the $100 billion cannabis market in the U.S. remains illegal, and roughly two thirds of that illicit weed is grown domestically&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In California, the Department of Cannabis Control says Chinese triads have been nominally involved in illegal cannabis production for decades, but that there\u2019s been a recent increase in the number of actors and money that may have originated in China. The DCC also said that some \u2014 but not all \u2014 of the Chinese-funded grows they\u2019ve encountered are operated by Chinese triads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cThis notion that you now have Chinese actual funding for illicit cannabis, it\u2019s definitely new, and it cuts directly across the interests of Mexican drug trafficking groups,\u201d said Felbab-Brown. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting to see whether it continues growing, [and] how that\u2019s going to affect relations between the Mexicans and the Chinese [criminal groups].\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,439,292,619],"class_list":["post-10320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-drugs","tag-marijuana","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10321,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320\/revisions\/10321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}