Operation uncovers illegal marijuana grow operations in southern Oregon

Jackson County says there are so many unlicensed growers, they need help from the feds to crack down. KGW’s Alma McCarty reports.

Read more: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/southern-oregon/illegal-pot-jackson-county-state-emergency/283-22f514a3-1473-4ae8-bad4-1408bd83c3ff

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17 Comments

  1. Hail Sithis on September 21, 2023 at 5:04 am

    If you use cannabis, you shouldn’t support illegal growers. There are proper channels to go through to ensure that this is done right so that cannabis can stick around. Illegal growers are a black eye.



  2. Misha's Sims on September 21, 2023 at 5:07 am

    Bet they were in the counties that didn’t allow grow operations nor dispensaries. 🀣🀣🀣



  3. Jeanie Brault on September 21, 2023 at 5:12 am

    Who cares!?!? It’s legal now so why are you still trying to suck out tons of state funding!?!? If you’re just trying to be a good person then tons of coffee shops all over the place are hiring so put your help where it’ll actually help!! πŸ€—πŸ€—πŸ€—



  4. tim kahn on September 21, 2023 at 5:14 am

    how stupid is the government ? charge like 2 dollars a plant and return it too home industry and laugh all the way too the bank as a state. the corp graft is causing pain in every part of the world. all this has become is a control war. maybe the government might wake up. and let people and not share holders/ceo,s this time. the government needs to wake up and understand its a plant anyone can grow. the reason it was made legal was an try at controlling it based on a few big bucks.



  5. John Tatman on September 21, 2023 at 5:17 am

    Why don’t some of the wannabe militias move in and take these growers out. They are all foreign drug cartels hiring illegals to work, seems like the perfect solution. Get this back to legal growers hiring American workers. Everybody complains about the illegals crossing the border and taking jobs. Oh wait, I forgot, these cartels shoot back. Enough said!!!!



  6. Just Me on September 21, 2023 at 5:18 am

    Oregon won’t let anyone get in the way of the gov’t profiting off of supplying drugs to their brainless minions.



  7. michael grabianowski on September 21, 2023 at 5:18 am

    They should auction off the confiscated bud instead of destroying it. Nothing does waste better than the government.



  8. wouldn't you like to know on September 21, 2023 at 5:29 am

    The reason is they’re driving the price down so the growers who are greasing the poem of the man was making less if you don’t pay the master you don’t grow nobody cares till they see how much money they’re not getting



  9. JJ Reaper on September 21, 2023 at 5:33 am

    They saw less money.
    Greed
    Greed
    Greed



  10. D Jackson on September 21, 2023 at 5:40 am

    What a waste of time, money and resources. Cannabis is legalized and widely and safely used (also taxed to help the economy) where I live and in many places.



  11. wouldn't you like to know on September 21, 2023 at 5:41 am

    They’re still smoking the results collected from this operation



  12. Michael Olaez on September 21, 2023 at 5:50 am

    All I heard was government greed πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ gotta love capitalist America



  13. S Brecke on September 21, 2023 at 5:55 am

    Their more concerned about this than downtown Portland being torn apart on a regular basis.



  14. 3rd Coast Born Texas Rasied on September 21, 2023 at 5:55 am

    You can’t control a seed that any body can grow



  15. HRDRZ on September 21, 2023 at 5:57 am

    If they aren’t stealing power or water. WHO THE FVCK CARES!!!!!!!



  16. 440 hz on September 21, 2023 at 5:57 am

    This story is just stupid!



  17. TheLordoftheStreams on September 21, 2023 at 6:03 am

    Government needs their cut I guess; legal but not too legal other wise Uncle Sam can’t get his!