[Lester Beans]

32,000+ plants. Holy shit. I can't imagine that indoors. Must have been quite a crew to maintain that. I'm doubting quality was very good in the end product though.

[moose eater]

Originally Posted by Gypsy Nirvana

In the past four months, the task force learned suspects were buying homes for the purpose of setting up marijuana grows. Most were purchased with cash, and the purchases were conducted by “Chinese nationals involved in organized crime,” according to the Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Office.

Looks like they were buying up homes, rather than renting them, probably creating quite a property portfolio at the same time. Literally growing for property.

Yeah, I'd noted the difference in contrast, and respect them for using their own property, though it may be as much a matter of security, preventing snooping landlords from being in less than opportune places at the wrong time.

And both Chinese and Mexican nationals have furthered this Country's goals throughout the years.. Railroads crossing the west, service related jobs during boom periods, such as the various gold rushes, etc., etc.

The comparison was mostly by way of the folks who labor for the lesser-seen, who rarely sit in front of a judge when the shit hits the fan.

[Gry]

The first drug laws in america were targeted at chinese nationals imported by the railroads as labor.

[Americangrower]

$900 a LB...no wonder our economy sucks..I guess Trump was right Chinese are fokking us..
Oh I need to go to that police auction for some used grow equipment.

[Gry]

the chinese had been imported by the railroad to break the strikes of irish labor, which had been brought in by the railroad to keep the price of american labor low..

[canadacannabis]

Originally Posted by Gypsy Nirvana

Its probably much cheaper to send the Chinese people over to grow it there in the US, than it is to grow it in China then ship it.

Very industrious people the Chinese, they built a good chunk of Americas infrastructure over the past 2-300 years.

This all sounds like you could make some sort of historical correlation in reverse with a comparison to 'The Opium Wars' many years ago when the British were in control of the Asian opium trade, and got much of China smoking opium....Hmm or is that a bit far fetched? You can't really compare cannabis to opium I suppose.....anyway, interesting piece of history :

https://www.victorianweb.org/history...piumwars1.html

Gypsy I mean zero disrespect but you really think there shopping Chinese from China simply because you think it makes it cheaper for them?

I thought you of all people would know you can be executed for growing cannabis in China and due to that the cost of a pound is over 10kusd and even more for premium bud.

They come to the states and blow up ops because the risk level goes from the death penalty to a slap o the wrist and being deported

They would make way more money gròw8nt in China but they would also but caught and killed in less than a year probsbly

[~star~crash~]

I say send them all off to the GULAG!!

[Gypsy Nirvana]

Originally Posted by canadacannabis

Gypsy I mean zero disrespect but you really think there shopping Chinese from China simply because you think it makes it cheaper for them?

I thought you of all people would know you can be executed for growing cannabis in China and due to that the cost of a pound is over 10kusd and even more for premium bud.

They come to the states and blow up ops because the risk level goes from the death penalty to a slap o the wrist and being deported

They would make way more money gròw8nt in China but they would also but caught and killed in less than a year probsbly

Back in the 1980's I met a couple of fine fella's from Sierra Leone in Hong Kong, they were studying Mandarin Chinese and to help pay for their studies every couple of months they would both travel to the far west of China and pick up a big back-pack each full of dry sifted unpressed hashish, then travel back to Hong Kong where it was pressed and distributed. They told me about huge fields of cannabis openly growing back then, and they attributed their success with smuggling all of that dry sift out of China by the fact that they were both as black as the ace of spades and the Chinese would hardly look at them, let alone try to touch or search them because of their looks.

Maybe ten or more years ago I ran into Rob Clark and he had been doing research on Chinese cannabis, in China.....so I'm sure the plant is growing there, although I haven't actually ventured into that part of the globe myself.....yet.

If it is as I envision then there are probably quite a few Chinese people involved in the cannabis industry in China who might well be recruited by the 14k or Sun Ying On triad (or whoever) to go abroad and continue with their profession in countries where the end product might reach a much higher price than it would do back in China, with as you say, much less risk.

[geneva_sativa]

Chun King Mansion lots of interesting folks about. . . take care though curious travelers. . . people really have disappeared in the labyrinths of that place.

China sure does have Cannabis growing in many areas and I have heard some reports from insiders that there is serious talk of medical business opening up there.

Jackie Chan's son got some trouble cause he was caught smoking and spent few months in jail . . . Jackie made national apology for the incident and nice to see him and son making movies together now.

[oldchuck]

Why do they show up here now when prices are dropping fast? Why haven't they been here all along, or have they been?