A crackdown by authorities in Kay County, Oklahoma led to the confiscation of 4,800 kilos of hashish and 5 companies shut down, KOCO experiences. The operation was led by the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA) and was prompted by each routine inspections of licensed medical hashish companies and civilian complaints.
Mel Woodrow, chief of enforcement and compliance at OMMA, instructed KOCO that the motion was the primary time the company had carried out such an operation.
“Giant portions that aren’t within the seed-to-sale monitoring system, the METRC system. It’s not tagged. By no means may they account for the place that marijuana needs to be going, or the place it got here from. Giant quantities of marijuana had been being diverted, it was fairly widespread data.” — Woodrow to KOCO
The crackdown comes as Oklahoma officers attempt to reign within the state’s medical hashish program. A research by Hashish Public Coverage Consulting commissioned by OMMA discovered that growers within the state had been producing 64 instances extra hashish than wanted for the state’s affected person inhabitants whereas knowledge from Oklahoma’s Bureau of Narcotics and Harmful Medication estimates that about 2,000 medical hashish licensees within the state are obtained fraudulently or are masking illicit gross sales. Final month, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN) mentioned that during the last two years, it has shut down greater than 800 illegal hashish farms working beneath the guise of the state’s medical hashish regulation, resulting in the confiscation of almost 7,000 kilos of hashish and greater than 200 arrests.
Officers mentioned the motion in Kay County would function a blueprint to uncover unlawful operators all through the state.
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