{"id":17270,"date":"2026-09-16T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17270"},"modified":"2026-09-15T09:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:04:26","slug":"illegal-pot-grows-are-still-a-problem-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17270","title":{"rendered":"Illegal pot grows are still a problem in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers served search warrants at six properties, seizing 86 guns and $11,500 in cash, while destroying 110,437 marijuana plants and 81,460 pounds of processed pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators and victim advocates identified at least 57 potential survivors subjected to forced labor. Responding advocates described inhumane conditions, with laborers forced to sleep on pallets or in tents inside sheds and greenhouses without electricity, running water, or air conditioning during summer heat waves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Legalization of pot has certainly not stopped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kptv.com\/2026\/09\/14\/dozens-trafficking-victims-rescued-sweltering-illegal-weed-farms-oregon-cops\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.kptv.com\/2026\/09\/14\/dozens-trafficking-victims-rescued-sweltering-illegal-weed-farms-oregon-cops\/\">illegal marijuana manufacturing and human trafficking<\/a> in Oregon. Don&#8217;t let anyone tell you otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers served search warrants at six properties, seizing 86 guns and $11,500 in cash, while destroying 110,437 marijuana plants and 81,460 pounds of processed pot. Investigators and victim advocates identified at least 57 potential survivors subjected to forced labor. Responding advocates described inhumane conditions, with laborers forced to sleep on pallets or in tents inside sheds and greenhouses without electricity, running water, or air conditioning during summer heat waves.\u00a0 Legalization of pot has certainly not stopped illegal marijuana manufacturing and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17270\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4uy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17271,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17270\/revisions\/17271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}