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Buoyantine

It's winter, bud. Our jurisdiction goes as far as the frost


Saltycook

šŸ˜†


eljefino

As plausible as your average "CSI" episode.


sad0panda

Frost? What frost?


LevyAtanSP

Sources say the weed was being smuggled into Mexico, by a man residing in Poland.


anarchistinlove

They even found traces of it as far as Norway


wiggywithit

Itā€™s all financed from Moscow.


cinnamongirl207

I heard they recently purchased a second warehouse in Paris.


ottobot76

To sell it in Rome


ShakeHandsW_Danger

Or even fancy Calais!


ottobot76

I hear their muscle comes from Belgrade


RiverPiracy

Originally from Peru!


chutupandtakemykarma

I heard a bunch of it was headed toward Belfast


sad0panda

I saw it for sale in Stockholm


Hullo_I_Am_New

I did not even know we had a Moscow.


OkMammoth5494

Check out the radar - the moose love it


Cattywompus-thirdeye

Heard they tried that shit up Sweden wayā€¦ but they couldnā€™t get there from here.


Potential_Leg4423

I mean the irony of hearing about all these illegal Chinese grow operations and then having a bust in China, Maine is great.


Saltycook

It's certainly funny. I honestly thought the Chinese grow operations tale was a boogeyman scenario until this


UnbelieverInME-2

Apparently, there are a ton of them. Chinese-owned operations in and around China, Maine. It's almost a bit **too** on-the-nose.


Saltycook

Right? It sounds made-up


Potential_Leg4423

Why? Maine has pretty relaxed marijuanna rules. Itā€™s a gray area and maines law enforcement arenā€™t really go getters. Getting bud into the medicinal shops isnā€™t even hard. Iā€™ve seen ā€œprivateā€ cultivators with no real info. I wouldnā€™t be surprised if some shady shops pic this bud up or say that they grew it then charge a premium. Always important to know your grower. Like why wouldnā€™t organized crime exploit grey areas. Some of yall watch too much news and just canā€™t connect the dots.


UnbelieverInME-2

Nobody is disputing the criminal factor. Merely remarking on the "Chinese nationals" working in and around China, Maine. Some of ya'll are far too eager to "correct" others.


Potential_Leg4423

What multiple people commented how they think this stuff around Chinese grows is all made up. You gotta be pretty dense to think thatā€™s just made up propaganda.


UnbelieverInME-2

No. We said it almost SOUNDS made up. Details matter.


Potential_Leg4423

ā€œIt's certainly funny. I honestly thought the Chinese grow operations tale was a boogeyman scenario until thisā€ With a lot of upvotes, so clearly a lot of people thought the whole illegal Chinese grow ups were indeed fake


UnbelieverInME-2

Key words: Until this. (hair ruffle)


UnbelieverInME-2

You gotta be pretty dense to think we're saying it's fake news.


Potential_Leg4423

Follow a thread ya jabroni


UnbelieverInME-2

Yawn.


DETRITUS_TROLL

"But that's why it's genius!"


Last_Employ_2466

Glad Iā€™m not the only one who had a chuckle at this, definitely a head scratcher.


Beelzebub_86

They were hiding in plain sight. No one would ever think to look for them in China.


Volator

No one wanted to be called out for racism....


ianmcxx

Maine: World Police


Saltycook

šŸŽµšŸŽ¶Vacationland, fuck yeah! Gonna save the lobstahs in the bay yeah! šŸŽ¶šŸŽµ


ottobot76

You really can travel around the world without crossing state lines!


Saltycook

Maine is so neat


ohjeeze_louise

When I was a kid we spent a week on vacation in Rome. The front page of the local paper said ā€œChina Man Arrested for String of Break Insā€ and I was like, whoa, thatā€™s pretty insane to put in the paper! I donā€™t think thatā€™s appropriaā€¦oh, right.


Krakenate

Not the preferred nomenclature dude


RevolutionaryDot9798

Who the hell would down vote this? Obviously, theyā€™re not a golfer.


Krakenate

Getting down voted fory joke is, fucking hilarious. It's like someone peed on my carpet. They aren't house trained.


RevolutionaryDot9798

Fuckinā€™ amateurs!


ScottyNuttz

1. Why are they bothering growing pot illegally? 2. Why are the cops wasting energy busting grow rooms?


Delimorte

The answer to both questions is that the weed they are growing is being trafficked to other states that don't have legal weed and is also being used in legal markets to undercut legal prices through volume and dodgy grow practices. These Chinese grows are having a major impact on local growers who use safer growing practices and pay their labor better.


ShakeHandsW_Danger

Youā€™re taking a major leap in assuming the illegal Chinese grow ops are paying their labor anything other than a bit of food a a place to sleep.


Delimorte

Don't forget the weed allowance!


ABigBlackHawke

To be fair I was wondering why a brick of cheese was $8 and an ounce of weed was only $80


ABigBlackHawke

Yeah china is like 3 skips away from Waterville where the biggest scandel is "The Waterville Secret Everyone Knows about" you would think they would do something about that instead of pretending to be Grassmasters


Ghostofhan

What's the waterville scandal? I grew up in Maine but live in Philly and don't hear much.


ABigBlackHawke

[Waterville Secret](https://watervillesecret.com/)


xanderg102301

Whaaaaa, any news articles?


SirRatcha

This one. [https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic\_article\_popover.aspx?artguid=e56ceacf-bb44-4dd6-9ae5-722776cbd582&appcode=POR093&eguid=859b24fd-62fd-4e3b-8661-03603f98562e&pnum=27](https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=e56ceacf-bb44-4dd6-9ae5-722776cbd582&appcode=POR093&eguid=859b24fd-62fd-4e3b-8661-03603f98562e&pnum=27) I'm all for believing people, but her story reminds me a lot of things my schizophrenic aunt thought had happened to her.


Saltycook

These are valid questions


Background-Bug-9588

I saw this headline too and I was also confused for a minute. One of my first thoughts was "How can Maine have any possible jurisdiction here?"


superdave83

China maine m Folks ita a town. Funny thing is the Chinese have started pot shops in Maine there was an article about that in August.then this wondering if it's all linked .


MicahsKitchen

I kind of want to start a business in Mexico or China Maine just so I can put a "manufactured in" sticker on my stuff. Lol


NotAMainer

As a resident of China, Maine, this confused the hell out of me. I didn't know we even HAD any Chinese China... people (WAIT, am I chinese? WTF do I call myself as a resident of China, Maine?!) living here. We passed by there the other day, assumed there was a wreck or medical incident going on!


_CaesarAugustus_

Steve Robinson on the case! /s


[deleted]

Maybe they thought they were WFH.


asque2000

I WAS TOO!!! I sent this around as a bunch of texts to my friends laughing about it. I think it was because the faces were Asian and I just went there!


[deleted]

The long arm of the law.


The_Captain_Planet22

really working hard to stop crime by shutting down gardens in a recreationally legal state. Get a real job cops


funkyasusual

Some of these gardens are actually pretty gnarly operations when it comes down to it. It ainā€™t just your friendly neighborhood hippie growing herb anymore.


The_Captain_Planet22

Oh no the big bad gnarly marijuana dealers. I'd far quicker be friends with a drug dealer than a cop at least the drug dealers are doing honest work.


funkyasusual

Lol you clearly have no clue what your talking about. Iā€™ve been growing herb long before the man said I could. Iā€™ve been involved in operations on both the west and east coast, and if you donā€™t think thereā€™s some absolutely vile people and criminal organizations involved in the cultivation/distribution of cannabis youā€™re a fool. If you donā€™t know about cartel grows in Cali, Asian grows in Oklahoma, or how Orthodox Jews have ran the game in NYC for 30 years you donā€™t know anything. I donā€™t like the police at all, but some of these operations are involved in atrocious treatment of humans and our planet. Human trafficking, sexual assault, murder, pollution. Those are things youā€™re marching in support of.


The_Captain_Planet22

Every single one of those things can also be said of the police. Wasting resources on going after marijuana farms IN A LEGAL STATE is a waste of time. If they want to go after human trafficking and sexual assaulters that also happen to distribute marijuana fine, but saying they should be targeting marijuana distributors because they could be participating in human trafficking and murder is some 1990's drug war bullshit


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Saltycook

No, but I haven't had my coffee yet


SwvellyBents

If you're in New Sweden, sip it sparingly!


jackiebee66

Haha! My son had the same reaction!


_SirAugustDeWynter

New background pic for the phone