Brian Anderson(@BrianAcity):Chinese criminal networks have turned California’s Siskiyou County—one of the most beautiful landscapes in America—into an industrial marijuana factory. Under Mount Shasta, they’re running billions in unlicensed grows, truck in water, are trafficking labor, and spray banned Chinese pesticides that experts call a form of chemical warfare. Pot legalization wound up inviting in the triads and the CCP to farm outside the system, while Governor Newsom looks away. Remarkable reporting from Chris Rufo and Haley Stark:

2026.09.16 16:18

Chinese criminal networks have turned California’s Siskiyou County—one of the most beautiful landscapes in America—into an industrial marijuana factory. Under Mount Shasta, they’re running billions in unlicensed grows, truck in water, are trafficking labor, and spray banned Chinese pesticides that experts call a form of chemical warfare. Pot legalization wound up inviting in the triads and the CCP to farm outside the system, while Governor Newsom looks away. Remarkable reporting from Chris Rufo and Haley Stark: