Oregon is home to a drug cartel

 Epoch Times:

Cartels Using Narco Slaves to Grow Illegal Marijuana on Industrial Scale in Oregon

Seven years after Oregon legalized recreational marijuana, the market for cannabis is booming. But rather than propagate a legal agricultural sector that grows the state’s economy as intended, the industry has taken a dark turn in Southern Oregon. Today, it is cultivating an ecosystem of international organized crime, human trafficking, and environmental degradation.
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The problems began when criminal enterprises learned that they could use a legal hemp farm operation as cover for an illegal marijuana grow, and that they could overwhelm law enforcement, which has been defunded for decades in small rural towns.

Today, the Oregon Health Authority reports that nearly half of the registered hemp farms inspected in Oregon are illegally growing marijuana. And another 25 percent of registered hemp farms won’t allow state inspectors in. Growers can simply thumb their noses at law enforcement with no consequence.

Once growers realized that, the rush was on.
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Oregon is one of the most poorly run states in the union.  It is dominated by Democrats and thuggish groups like Antifa in Portland.  It has been defunding the cops at a rapid pace and crime is flourishing.  Antifa mobs routinely engage in riots and destruction of property without much in the way of consequences.  It is a reflection of the failure of civilization on the West Coast. And now it has become home to its own drug cartels.