Captives of Cannabis: Human Trafficking In The Marijuana Industry
Captives of Cannabis: Human Trafficking In The Marijuana Industry
In an in-depth report for Nightly Films, Jacob Soboroff details his months-long investigation into labor trafficking in the marijuana black market. Law enforcement tells us that the practice is growing, despite two-thirds of U.S. states legalizing marijuana.
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legalize it
Nice, the way the uniformed thugs smashed the windows of their cars.
You can smoke marijuana as long as the supremacist control the money. It’s either harmful or not?
All the more reason to deregulate the legal marijuana industry
It’s all about who controls the money if a black man invented cigarettes they would be SO illegal it would be mind boggling hypocrisy.
Anything anything to divert awareness away from coptels shooting up schools. Shameless.
PEOPLE OF AMERICA. VOTE AGAINST ALL DEMOCRATS FOREVER.
There are Asian slaves in Oklahoma right now today working under threat of death and being held against their will. Legal growers cant make ends meet because these Asians are selling weed at a fraction of the price. 6 to 8 hundred a pound for mid to high grade weed, edibles and vapes. Im no angel but fk slavery and fk foreign crime syndicates taking advantage of us…This is all a product of white supremacy…it was white supremacists in government who let this happen.
There’s zero evidence of human trafficking here. They hadn’t "been paid" because they hadn’t sold their weed yet. The "victims" filmed are running the operation. They live in trailers because you don’t build permanent structures at an illegal grow. No one was forcing them to keep their trailers trashed. It’s that woman’s stuff all over the trailer. She’s just a slob. Like the translator of the website said, they subleased the land on their own and did all the growing themselves. The owner of the website was just going to help them sell it by getting it labeled as "legal" and sold in dispensaries. These people paid for the opportunity to do this. They said themselves they weren’t victims, except this one guy at the end. They had cars and could have left. The cops didn’t find anyone guarding them during the raid. All the actual evidence shows this is just an illegal grow. Just because they’re Chinese and don’t speak much English doesn’t mean they don’t know what they’re doing. They want the money it brings. That’s a job, not slavery.
Dumb a** government need to make there mind up! All this one foot in one foot out mess jus dumb! Russia need to blow this mofo
Just Doing Legal
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Waaaaait a minute…progressives want more drugs…but more trafficking…prongs want more abortion, but parts sold…progressives want more illegals…but more trafficking…see how saving the world and managing people makes it worse? Progressives love trafficking, they are just too stupid to know it.
Reefer Madness
This is complete BS. The main problem this country has now is “victim trafficking” whereby victims are created and exaggerated merely to use as political pawns for Liberal Democrats who possess bleeding heart social warriors while they watch their personal bank accounts secretly grow out of reasonable proportion with their fake woke personal branding. These people are worse than pond scum.
Yeah… Americans will never understand that, just because you seem like you don’t have any money, but in actuality, you do have money. Americans fail to understand that Chinese are very good at saving money by living WAY below their means.
Lives in a trailer drives a Lexus. That’s the Asian way
**FYI**
(Likely) The shoes, socks, pants, shirt, ect you are wearing was also made by modern day slavery, coincidentally i suppose Asian cointries have a hand (or 2) in that as well.
Our modern day, evolved society is an illusion. There are people paying the price for our privileges. It’s sad. We’re all slaves though, right? The whole system is designed to keep us that way.
Well i bet theres a 9 year old Vietnamese boy stitching Jordans together 12 hours a day for $3/week who might feel differently.
LEGALIZE IT
My heart sank. I have a perception of pot being surrounded by peace, not this.
The lady with Lexus IS in charger but plays stupid so stop saying she trafficked
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And in the meantime, the original growers are having to let go of their product for $200/lb; which barely covers costs. Trafficking? tough conditions? Chinese? –oh–says it all.
And all this leads back to the stupid Weed laws. A plant that grows naturally. Unprocessed. Crazy.. while the rich get richer off weed.
PEOPLE OF AMERICA. STOP SMOKING MARIJUANA. STOP BEING DRUG ADDICTS.
this is one stupid report….here’s what these Chinese people on this report are doing , ….they, get a site and start growing, if they get busted, all they have to say is that they were lied to by some "mystery person" so all they get is a ticket, if they don’t get caught by the law, their profit is very high, they are not innocent, they are not victims…..if any of them were black or Hispanic they would go to jail….Chinese people are good at what they do, ….they have Banks all over the United States, they live in the richest areas, they drive top of the line cars, why because they know how to brake the law without ever getting caught….this is not a racist comment, one thing I know about the Chinese in the United States is that they are about money how to make it make fast, they don’t bring attention to themselves, they only do business among there own, you don’t see them with Tattoos, or look like a stupid street gangster,….
Mulan driving a lexus but has no cash? lol deport them
If the governmental organized crime family was getting their cut of the action, this video would not have been made.
This sounds more like a scam than trafficking to me but I’m not a lawyer.
I live in China. Everything is a scam here, from government funding to bank deposits to house buying. Everything is a scam.
Seriously if there is next life, I wish to be born in any other country, except China.
The reporter exposes the people on the bottom of the ladder. They will now be in danger.
Might be good to learn how to say "lay down on the ground" in Chinese.
The Police are awful. Commanding these innocent people to get on the ground was an unnecessary escalation.
Sherriff should have given each 1 of the people they busted 1 plant so they could sell it for money.
If growing legal…why did they have to break all the windows on the car.
JUST LEGALIZE IT!!! Solves the issues. It’s why we cannabis warriors spend so much time fighting unjust laws!!
Asking the wrong questions to get the right answers at the grow site. If you don’t know how to interview to pull useful info, why are you going to the trouble?
anyone think this is stupid? Theyre trying to make being poor being a trafficking victim. Ive known PLENTY of people who are like "well i guess i need to get my car fixed and go home" but don’t have the money. Thats called being poor. I once worked for a guy for minimum wage for 10 years because he held things over my head like putting tires on my car or something. He by this equivalent would have trafficked or enslaved me. I finally got a wife with an income and could risk leaving for more money and doing risky business moves like starting a business at night and that got us out of poverty
Oh my God get over yourself
If I was to take an educated guess as to who is behind the operation of these illegal cannabis grow, I would point that to the Chinese mafia. They are a highly sophisticated organization that runs their business in the best way possible which leaves no trails behind that would lead back to the organization. I could be wrong but this is my speculation.
Sure. Make it seem like the plants fault instead of criminals willing to do anything to make a buck.
Total B.S.!
I’m used to growers trying to hide. These guys are in the wide open.
LEGALIZE MARIJUANA COMPLETELY!
I don’t know everybody get away from pot it’s always been so bad. God-made it but Jesus Christ hates it.. Please
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Hey good jobs that pay cash are hard to come by.
Have you heard of any Chinese nationals being trafficked for marijuana farming NO sees the video… very common 👏 👌
You learned Spanish but can’t take the time to learn basic mandarin when there the vast majority of the population in Lucerne and pinion hills. You just blow out all the windows for what reason