Steve Robinson
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It's a huge part of the equation.
If you ignore that, you're, you know, you're fighting this with both hands behind your back.
And we've had—the state has had no help whatsoever from state leadership or the state police in combating these cartels.
It's been almost exclusively county sheriffs and local police, and in a few instances, national DEA.
Oh, shit.
Nobody's on this except the locals, huh?
It's hard to tell because there is just so much being cultivated and consumed.
I do know that America is now an exporter nation when it comes to cannabis.
There are other countries, Ireland, the UK, that are complaining to federal authorities about American-grown cannabis showing up in their countries.
The volume, I mean, we're probably talking in the millions of tons.
Hemp more so because it's less potent, but the appetite for Americans for these cannabis products, it continues to stun me every time I think,
I've figured out what the ceiling is.
I'm blown away.
I think in the recent congressional testimony, someone from Oklahoma said that they – someone did the math there and calculated that just in Oklahoma, they were growing something like 35 or 40 times what could reasonably be consumed by people in Oklahoma.
just under existing licenses.
So very obviously it's exporting.
They're violating federal law and exporting that to other states and they're selling it.
It's just good old fashioned cannabis, like the product I just handed you.
And everyone along the way is pretending it's hemp.
The guy who grows it's pretending it's hemp.