Maine Lawmakers Reject Bill That Targets China-Run Marijuana Farms

In a surprise defeat, Maine lawmakers—mostly Democrats—killed a bill that would have put an end to the growing number of massive Chinese pot farms in the rural reaches of the state. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the operations are linked to the Chinese Community Party (CCP) and are being used as a major funding source for large-scale human trafficking and the fentanyl drug trade. “It is a good day to be a Chinese communist gangster in Maine,” the bill’s main sponsor Rep. John Andrews (R-Paris) told The Epoch Times following the defeat of his bill....