In 2014, Oregon voters approved a ballot measure legalizing recreational marijuana after being told it would eliminate problems caused by 'uncontrolled manufacture' of the drug. Oregon lawmakers are now looking at toughening laws against outlaw growers.
The measure also holds people accountable for environmental damage and prohibits use of water at locations not licensed for growing marijuana. Addressing immigrant labor, the draft bill makes it a crime for managers of an illegal grow site to confiscate a passport or immigration document, to threaten to report a person to a government agency for arrest or deportation, or withhold wages without lawful justification.
A single raid in October yielded 76,930 pounds of marijuana in Yamhill County, southwest of Portland, the largest pot bust on record in a county more renowned for its pinot noir wine.“Investigators found the entire property had been converted to facilitate the growth, storage, processing, and packaging of marijuana to be shipped or transported out of the area,” the sheriff’s office said.
Receipts at the property in rural Newberg, Oregon, showed wire transfers involving large amounts of money going from Oregon to the state of Michoacán in Mexico. The 2014 Oregon voters’ pamphlet said legalization of recreational marijuana would “eliminate the problems caused by the prohibition and uncontrolled manufacture, delivery, and possession of marijuana within this state.”, acknowledged that legalization — and the creation of a regulated industry from farm to customer — has not stemmed the illegal grows.
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