New Oklahoma Bill Would Prohibit Foreign Land Ownership In Crackdown On Illicit Cannabis Cultivation
Republican state Representative Danny Williams introduced House Bill 3125 that would prohibit foreign land ownership in Oklahoma to halt illegal cannabis grows in the state, writes Fox 25.
“They said, ‘We want to protect our property against foreign nationals,” Williams said. “A lot of people when they come in, they’re involved in illegal activity and foreign ownership. Rules and laws don’t matter to them. It’s profit.”
Over the past few years, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN) arrested more than 250 people involved in illegal cannabis cultivation activities.
About a year ago, the agency’s investigation linked sex trafficking, prostitution, and drug trafficking to medical marijuana farms across the state. These illegal activities seem to be part of an Asian organized crime network.
“Many of them were Chinese,” Mark Woodward of OBN recently said. “Now some were tied to organized crime out of Mexico, the cartels, we’ve certainly busted a lot of those farms. We’ve raided farms linked to Serbian, Armenian, and Russian. But one of the biggest criminal organizations and concerns are those that are tied back to Chinese organized crime, and the Chinese Communist Party.”
To address this issue, Williams proposed a bill that requires the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and …