Perusing campaign spending reports, which are public record and readily available on - line, the local daily reported that County Executive Mike Hein had received some $ 12,500 in campaign donations between 2012 and 2014 from different parties seeking to establish medicinal marijuana farms in the county. (hudsonvalleyone.com)
US authorities also believe Mexican cartels have set up grow operations in parts of the US, like Northern California or in Wisconsin, where a hunter found an allegedly Sinaloa cartel - run marijuana farm with 10,000 plants and armed guards in 2012. (businessinsider.com)