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

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : They declined law enforcement offers of help.
45% : Oregon voters were told that legalization would put an end to the black market for marijuana.
42% : The issue finally came into national focus last month during a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, when Republican Congressman Cliff Bentz called on U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to prioritize and direct more federal resources to local law enforcement in places like southern Oregon.
39% : Oregon, and possibly other states are caught up in the illegal growing and production of marijuana and cannabis on an industrial scale.
38% : Growers can simply thumb their noses at law enforcement with no consequence.
37% : 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.
32% : Today, the Oregon Health Authority reports that nearly half of the registered hemp farms inspected in Oregon are illegally growing marijuana.

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