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Colorado and federal agents have raided illegal marijuana operations across the state the past six weeks in a concerted effort to take out syndicates marketing marijuana to different parts of the country.
U.S. Attorney John Walsh’s staff has filed numerous criminal charges in recent weeks against illegal operations that are secretly growing marijuana in Colorado for shipment across the country.
“This wave of marijuana grow operation sites is greater than we’ve seen the last couple of years,” Walsh said. “They seem to have the view that if I come to Colorado and set up a marijuana grow operation I won’t be noticed.”
Walsh speculated that the influx could be linked to the drought in California, where many illegal grow operations have been found previously. Colorado is more desirable because it is not in drought, he said.
“Marijuana takes a lot of water to grow,” Walsh said.
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