Chinese organized crime with suspected ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has taken over an estimated 75 percent of the marijuana black market in the United States, a federal narcotics expert said.
Rob Roggeveen, national deputy coordinator of the Marijuana Impact Group within the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program, said that the black-market marijuana trade has grown exponentially into an estimated $300 billion-a-year industry.
“This stuff is being exported out of the country, whether it’s to Canada, France, England. It’s an international business for them,” Roggeveen told The Epoch Times
“They’re not growing in the U.S. just to keep it within the United States—it’s going international.”…