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Experts urged Congress on Sept. 18 to launch a federal task force and utilize the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act to target Chinese transnational gangs involved in illegal marijuana farming in the United States.

“This isn’t just about marijuana,” Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics Director Donnie Anderson told lawmakers during a congressional hearing on Thursday.

“I’m not talking about mom or pop operations or even about people who utilize marijuana for whatever medical purpose they use it for. I’m talking about real organized transnational criminals who do not have our best interests at heart.”

During a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/event/119th-congress/house-event/118449?s=1&r=2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hearing</a> before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability, lawmakers heard testimony about the rising threat of black market marijuana cultivation in states like Oklahoma, Maine, Massachusetts, and California.

Witnesses told of illegal growing operations that are increasingly being exploited by Chinese transnational gangs and Mexican cartels.

The experts—Anderson, former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Christopher Urben, and Paul Larkin of the Heritage Foundation—recommended Congress use a combination of federal and state-level law enforcement to curb illegal cannabis farming.

Anderson said the operations are surging in Oklahoma due to several factors, including the state’s loose regulations on the number of plants marijuana cultivators are allowed to grow for the state’s medical marijuana program, inexpensive agricultural land, and crackdowns on black market cannabis farming in nearby states.

Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.), the subcommittee’s chair, said Chinese nationals have been caught approaching residents in several states with cash offers to use their identity to “purchase a nearby, attractive land” and in return, the resident keeps a share of the profits, “no questions asked.”

Soon after, large-scale illegal marijuana grow operations materialize where workers are forced to endure 14-hour days while being confined to small living conditions with “minimal running water, air conditioning, the smell of toxic fumes, [and] fumigation from pesticides that are lit on fire” as armed guards watch over, Brecheen added.

He said many of these criminal operations are directly tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is facilitating “an underground criminal network in our backyard.”

Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) said local law enforcement in Michigan arrested four Chinese nationals several months ago after uncovering more than 5,000 marijuana plants worth roughly $5 million in a warehouse.

He said billions of dollars in profits from illegal marijuana cultivation help the Chinese regime “wrestle global influence away from the United States through foreign investment in developing nations that the Trump administration has cut aid to.”

“The illegal marijuana proceeds also fuel Mexican cartels that traffic deadly fentanyl to the United States,” Thanedar said, adding that black market cannabis production is a “threat to our national security, human rights, and the environment.”

Despite many of these states having legal marijuana markets, including Oklahoma, Anderson noted that much of the illegally grown cannabis is shipped out of the Sooner State, where it can end up in places where marijuana is still illegal or access is more restricted.

“[It] has nothing to do with marijuana. If someone wants to ingest marijuana, that’s their business,” Anderson said.

“For me, it has everything to do with transnational criminal organizations who are doing things such as trafficking in very large amounts of marijuana. They are laundering billions, not millions.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) noted the medical uses some have pursued with marijuana, including successfully treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but said Americans are largely unaware of the persisting black market.

“There’s medical uses of marijuana, but the American people have no idea that Chinese transnational criminal organizations are involved and that it’s leading to other extremely terrible and dangerous crimes and fentanyl,” she said.

Urben said it’s essential for the federal government to take the same approach it used against Italian organized crime in the 1980s and 1990s and pursue RICO charges against illegal marijuana cultivators operating in the United States.

“Chinese organized crime leaders need to understand that the federal government will aggressively target them with severe consequences, using other federal authorities to target the related crimes such as human trafficking, money laundering, tax evasion, mortgage fraud, as well as state and local laws and regulations governing the cultivation operations themselves and those governing land power use and water violations will have a material impact,” he said.

Urben added that a federal specialized task force is needed to “effectively target Chinese money launderers [and] Chinese organized crime engaged in marijuana trafficking activity.”

<em>From <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/us-should-use-rico-charges-to-target-illegal-chinese-marijuana-farming-experts-say-5917029">The Epoch Times</a></em>

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