REVEALED: Chinese ギャング（団）s are behind THOUSANDS of 違法な 少しのd farms across the US - 誘発するing 恐れるs that CCP could become new cannabis 中心人物s

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Chinese ギャング（団）s have 始める，決める up thousands of illicit 少しのd farms across the US as they begin to challenge Mexican cartels for 最高位 as America's cannabis 中心人物s.

当局 in Oklahoma, Oregon, California, New Mexico and Maine have all been 戦う／戦いing a 殺到する in Chinese 少しのd farms, with some thought to be linked to 犯罪の ギャング（団）s known as 'triads'.

The spread is seemingly uncontainable, with police in Penobscot 郡, Maine, last week 逮捕（する）ing three Chinese 国家のs at a 少しのd farm and 掴むing 40 続けざまに猛撃するs of the 麻薬 と一緒に $4,700 in cash.

It is thought to be one of around 270 違法な 少しのd farms 価値（がある） more than $4billion that have sprung up across the 明言する／公表する since it 合法化するd the 麻薬 in 2020.

地元の 法律 施行 has carried out 多重の 破産した／（警察が）手入れするs already this year.

A Chinese 労働者 at a 違法な cannabis farm in New Mexico that was shut 負かす／撃墜する in 2020. Former 労働者s at the 工場／植物 とじ込み／提出するd a 訴訟 last year against its 中心人物s 主張するing 虐待

Earlier this month, police in northern Maine （警察の）手入れ，急襲d 多重の 所有物／資産／財産s 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd of 存在 part of a 270-strong 網状組織 of 違法な Chinese マリファナ grows?

Chen Wu, 47, was 宣告，判決d to life in 刑務所，拘置所 earlier this year after pleading 有罪の to fatally 狙撃 four people at an 違法な 医療の マリファナ 操作／手術 in Oklahoma

一方／合間, around 2,000 '怪しげな' マリファナ 工場／植物s in Oklahoma have been linked to?中国, accounting for two thirds of 少しのd farms under 監視, 明言する／公表する 麻薬s police told Politico.

Earlier this month, a Chinese ringleader was 宣告，判決d t o life in 刑務所，拘置所 after pleading 有罪の to fatally 狙撃 four people at an 違法な 医療の マリファナ 操作／手術 in Oklahoma.

Mexican cartels have long 支配するd the market for 違法な 少しのd in the US, but 公式の／役人s are now 警告 that Chinese 基金ing for such 操作／手術s is 急上昇するing.

It is not known whether the money is coming from groups connected to the Chinese 共産主義者 Party (CCP), but 専門家s have pointed out that triads are usually only 許すd to operate if they agree to 行為／法令／行動する as informal 'enforcers' for the 政府.

Last year, a 母国 安全 覚え書き 漏れるd to the Daily 報知係 せいにするd the growth to Asian Transnational 犯罪の Organizations (TCOs), with one 公式の／役人 raising the 可能性 that 利益（をあげる）s are 存在 funneled 支援する to Beijing.

Chinese 移民，移住（する） 労働者s have 申し立てられた／疑わしい they were 誘惑するd to northern New Mexico under 誤った pretenses and 軍隊d to work 14 hours a day at an 違法な マリファナ 工場／植物 支援するd with 基金s from a 中国-based energy 巨大（な）, によれば a 訴訟 とじ込み／提出するd last year.

The 操作／手術 was shut 負かす／撃墜する by police in 2020, but those behind it upped sticks to Oklahoma - taking many of their 労働者s with them - before that farm was also 破産した／（警察が）手入れするd in 2022.

The 厳重取締 in Southern and Western 明言する／公表するs has been put 今後 as one 推論する／理由 for the 爆発 in 少しのd farms in Maine.

For several years, Maine 居住（者）s have spoken out about a 殺到する in マリファナ-odor filled homes popping up across the 明言する／公表する, 含むing 近づく daycares and schools.

The Chinese owners, who spea k little to no English, have 恐らく earned a 悪名高い 評判 throughout Maine for spending thousands on cultivating 器具／備品, すなわち by 需要・要求するing items from their phones.

A sprawling 違法な マリファナ 工場／植物 in New Mexico was shut 負かす／撃墜する after 当局 設立する a 網状組織 of 1,100 温室s across 400 acres?

The 操作／手術 was 支援するd with 基金ing from a 中国-based energy 巨大（な）, によれば a 訴訟 seen by DailyMail.com

A Travel Inn in Farmington, New Mexico, was used to 過程 the cultivated マリファナ?

This house in ベオグラード, Maine, was （警察の）手入れ，急襲d by police earlier this year after 当局 said they 暴露するd 違法な マリファナ growing 操作／手術s inside. Two Chinese 国家のs were 逮捕（する）d?

Maine police 掴むd 970 マリファナ 工場／植物s at a Chinese farm in the town of 中国 in January?

Homes that have been identified as part of the 広範囲にわたる statewide apparatus appear to be 設立する in everyday sleepy 郊外s, yet are said to have been 疫病／悩ますing their 近隣s as a strong マリファナ smell emanates even from a distance away and are fitted with 広範囲にわたる 電気の 昇格s.

専門家s 見積（る） that a 基準 2,500 square foot home can produce 上向きs of $3million of マリファナ every year.?

Some of the 利益（をあげる）s are 恐らく sent 直接／まっすぐに 支援する to 中国, while some of the ill-gotten 伸び（る）s remain in the US to keep up 犯罪の activities.

によれば an 調査 by Maine Wire into 100 of the identified 場所／位置s, they were all 購入（する）d since マリファナ was legaliz ed, by 選び出す／独身 Chinese adults まず第一に／本来 from New York and Massachusetts.

Although the homes are 恐らく とじ込み／提出するd under the 選び出す／独身 指名するs, many are tied together by factors such as car 登録s - 示すing they may be connected and controlled by an umbrella organization.

Neighbors say it has become a 近づく-月毎の sight to see a 先頭 with New York or Massachusetts plates arrive at the マリファナ-filled homes.

In January, Maine 当局 （警察の）手入れ，急襲d an 違法な Chinese-run マリファナ 操作／手術 in the aptly-指名するd town of 中国 in Kennebec 郡.?

The Chinese-owned growing 工場／植物s have 現れるd at a time when the マリファナ 産業 is 急上昇するing in the US, 開始 up million-dollar 歳入 streams for many - 含むing the Amish community who were 詳細（に述べる）d in a DailyMail.com 調査 last year.

全国的な, 母国 安全 has 報道によれば 設立する a total of 749 所有物／資産／財産s linked to Asian TCOs, 示すing Maine has become a particular hotbed for CCP activity.

It comes まっただ中に growing 失望／欲求不満 at the 失敗 of 法律 施行 to 割れ目 負かす／撃墜する on the illicit 操作／手術s, with 母国 安全 恐らく pleading with Maine police to help them gather intel on the 所有物／資産／財産s in September.

'There are hundreds of these 操作／手術s occurring throughout the 明言する／公表する,' Penobscot 郡 郡保安官 Troy Morton told the Daily 報知係 at the time.

'It's upsetting to those who live 近づく these 操作／手術s, and even those who are に引き続いて Maine 法律s and 手続きs.'

Those Morton was 言及／関連ing, 特に Maine's 法律-がまんするing 少しのd 産業, say the infiltration of 'Triad 少しのd' has been a 災害.

'When I say they 機能（する）／行事 like a mafia, it is 絶対 true,' a person inside the 合法的な 産業 told the Maine Wire. 'They have a very intricate 網状組織 .'

Many in the 合法的な 少しのd 産業 say they have been 軍隊d to become 極端に selective to 避ける using the Chinese-grown マリファナ, as it is often 設立する to 含む／封じ込める harmful 化学製品s 含むing pesticides.

The harmful elements to the 製品 is another example of the struggle 法律 施行 have had in clamping 負かす／撃墜する on the 違法な マリファナ grown by 違法な 移民，移住（する）s.

'関わりなく where the individuals are from, the true problem 伴う／関わるs 相反する 明言する／公表する and 連邦の 法律s,' Morton said. 'We also have little to no oversight, 許すing for 犯罪の activity to occur at a high degree.'