Using social media to deliver a controlled substance in Texas will now bump your charge up a degree, unless it’s first degree and then it’s an extra 5 years of prison and a double fine. Sell someone 4g of hash that you met on social media and you can get 10-life
According to court documents, from approximately January 2018 to November 2020, Benally, 48, and his co-conspirators established over 30 farms, covering more than 400 acres, on land obtained from Navajo Nation members. To fund this illegal enterprise, Benally and a co-conspirator traveled to California and created front companies to solicit Chinese investors. These investors were charged cash fees ranging from $20,000 to $50,000 for counterfeit cannabis cultivation licenses. They were also deceived into believing they were growing legal hemp, not marijuana, and were required to pay the co-conspirators a percentage of the harvest.
And only 18 arrests made to account for the “$222 million” in eradicated cannabis in California. Really effective. I’d expect them to have made more arrests with the amount of exploitative slave labor going on in California.
