The Director of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics spoke to a Congressional subcommittee on Thursday about illegal Chinese marijuana grows in the state and the country.

OBN Director Donnie Anderson detailed the size and rampancy of illegal grow operations in Oklahoma and the level of involvement by Chinese criminal organizations..

Anderson told the subcommittee that Chinese criminal organizations are deeply entrenched in the state’s illegal marijuana industry, using licensed farms as cover to traffic drugs nationwide. He said Oklahoma has become a hub for transnational crime, with Chinese groups laundering money and supplying fentanyl precursors in addition to controlling large portions of the marijuana trade.

Anderson said his agency has shut down more than 3,000 illegal grow operations

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