{"id":9386,"date":"2021-06-20T12:27:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T12:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/06\/20\/black-market-marijuana-grows-are-popping-up-faster-than-law-enforcement-can-take-them-down-but-is-legalization-the-cause\/135314\/"},"modified":"2021-06-20T12:27:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T12:27:20","slug":"black-market-marijuana-grows-are-popping-up-faster-than-law-enforcement-can-take-them-down-but-is-legalization-the-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/black-market-marijuana-grows-are-popping-up-faster-than-law-enforcement-can-take-them-down-but-is-legalization-the-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Black market marijuana grows are popping up faster than law enforcement can take them down. But is legalization the cause?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/black-market-marijuana-grows-are-popping-up-faster-than-law-enforcement-can-take-them-down-but-is-legalization-the-cause\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/marijuana-Colorado-RJS-4684-533x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/black-market-marijuana-grows-are-popping-up-faster-than-law-enforcement-can-take-them-down-but-is-legalization-the-cause.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TDP-L-MONEY_LAUNDER_114x-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/black-market-marijuana-grows-are-popping-up-faster-than-law-enforcement-can-take-them-down-but-is-legalization-the-cause-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TDP-L-Dan-Tang-RJS-3899-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/black-market-marijuana-grows-are-popping-up-faster-than-law-enforcement-can-take-them-down-but-is-legalization-the-cause-2.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/marijuana-Colorado-RJS-4886-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/black-market-marijuana-grows-are-popping-up-faster-than-law-enforcement-can-take-them-down-but-is-legalization-the-cause-3.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/marijuana-Colorado-RJS-4724-560x378.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/black-market-marijuana-grows-are-popping-up-faster-than-law-enforcement-can-take-them-down-but-is-legalization-the-cause-4.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/black-market-marijuana-grows-are-popping-up-faster-than-law-enforcement-can-take-them-down-but-is-legalization-the-cause-6.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/06\/20\/black-market-marijuana-grows-are-popping-up-faster-than-law-enforcement-can-take-them-down-but-is-legalization-the-cause\/135314\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"135314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As he awaited sentencing in 2010, Fayin Deng sounded a contemplative, philosophic note.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have learned now that once you become obsessed with money, no matter how great your original need was,\u201d Deng wrote to the federal judge overseeing his criminal case, \u201cthere is no such thing as feeling like you have enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The source of his cash came from a different kind of green \u2014 marijuana. It was \u201ceasy money,\u201d Deng wrote, referring to his role in a large-scale Colorado drug trafficking organization responsible for growing massive quantities of illicit marijuana for sale across the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2021\/06\/20\/black-market-marijuana-colorado-chinese-crime-rings\/\">Read the rest of this story on DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As he awaited sentencing in 2010, Fayin Deng sounded a contemplative, philosophic note. \u201cI have learned now that once you become obsessed with money, no matter how great your original need was,\u201d Deng wrote to the federal judge overseeing his criminal case, \u201cthere is no such thing as feeling like you have enough.\u201d The source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6897,851,233,1345,6814,9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6898,3424,2811,3915,6819],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}