October 8, 2021

In April, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (OBN) arrested eleven individuals, primarily from China, for unlawful involvement in marijuana cultivation in Guthrie. According to the state attorney general’s office and residents from the Panhandle to the Texas border, increasing numbers of foreign nationals are buying agricultural land using cutouts and front companies to evade a state law that requires 75% local ownership to participate in medical marijuana cultivation.

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