The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics is launching an investigation into illegal sale of out-of-state cannabis inside Sooner State lines. Mark Woodward, spokesperson for OBN, said the agency busted a seller from California transporting cannabis to sell to Oklahoma dispensaries.
"That's being sold for pennies on the dollar from Nevada or California or other places on the west coast," he said.
The OBN and Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority inspect and investigate dispensaries and growers to ensure what they are selling is local. With the industry growing by the minute and state inspection staffing struggling to keep up, Woodward said it is a job easier said than done.
"You can only do so many with the people you have and a lot of it has to be complaint driven," Woodward said. "You can count them all on one hand in the past three years of how many cases we've been able to prove."
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