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OKEMAH, Okla. (AP) \u2014 Chip Baker surveyed a vast field on the outskirts of an old hay farm an hour east of Oklahoma City, his ponytail waving in the thick, humid air, his voice growing excited.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is probably the largest collection of Squirt in the world!\u201d he boasted, pointing to an array of neatly plotted cannabis plants before him that will soon flower pounds of the popular strain.<\/p>\n

Baker would know. From the time he planted his first marijuana plant at 13, he\u2019s been all about growing weed. A dream formed in the Georgia fields took him to Humboldt County, California \u2014 the nation\u2019s earliest pot epicenter \u2014 then Colorado, the country\u2019s first recreational market.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s here in rural Oklahoma, down a dusty dirt road along the banks of the North Canadian River, where true cannabis cowboys \u2014 including droves of Colorado entrepreneurs like Baker \u2014 are buying mammoth properties to grow mammoth numbers of plants, all in a quest for mammoth stacks of kush-derived cash.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a place unlike virtually any other in America.<\/p>\n

\u201cOther states grow patches,\u201d Baker said with a grin, taking in the 90-acre, 40,000-plant cannabis farm before him. \u201cIn Oklahoma, we grow fields.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sooner State, as deeply red as the American political palette will go, has almost overnight become the hottest place in the country to grow marijuana. It\u2019s an unprecedented look at what happens when the government stays largely out of the picture and lets the free market run wild.<\/p>\n

And Colorado businesses are pumping their sizeable dollars and cannabis expertise into the state, hoping to cash in on what Baker and others in the industry call the next green rush.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the Wild West of weed,\u201d he said, \u201cin all its glory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oklahoma is now America\u2019s most unlikely bastion of bud \u2014 a law-and-order mecca that took the war on drugs to its extreme and still imprisons a higher percentage of its population than every state but Louisiana.<\/p>\n

Contrary to most other highly regulated cannabis markets, in Oklahoma there are no caps on how many plants you can grow and no limit to how many grows or dispensaries the state can handle. As a result, Oklahoma now has the most medical marijuana patients per capita in the nation \u2014 and it\u2019s not even close. Just three years after legalization, the state has seven times the number of growers as Colorado and twice as many dispensaries.<\/p>\n

Land is affordable and plentiful. Doctors conduct virtual consultations that help people get medical licenses in as little as 15 minutes \u2014 no approved medical condition necessary.<\/p>\n

These low barriers to entry make Oklahoma the new eye of the national weed storm.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone with a dollar and a dream can get started in Oklahoma,\u201d said Brent McDonald, marketing and sales director at Apothecary Farms\/Apothecary Extracts, one of the many Colorado cannabis companies competing in what has quickly become a national marijuana arms race.<\/p>\n

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The flip side to this wild west environment, Oklahoma law enforcement officials contend, is a state flooded with people \u2014 including those migrating from Colorado \u2014 looking to take advantage of the lax new laws.<\/p>\n

Illegal growers are setting up shop in rural areas, they contend, forcing their workforce to live in squalid conditions and diverting their product out of state for massive profits. Meanwhile, land prices are going for five times their value, with eager growers paying in straight cash.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not frustrated,\u201d said Haskell County Sheriff Tim Turner, whose deputies in rural eastern Oklahoma busted two Colorado individuals in June for allegedly operating an illicit 10,000-plant grow. \u201cI\u2019m madder than hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Leaving Colorado for greener pastures<\/p>\n

After getting his start in California, Baker spent a decade honing his cannabis chops in Colorado\u2019s medical and, later, recreational scenes.<\/p>\n

In Denver, he formed his Cultivate Colorado brand that supplies growers with the soil, lights, shovels and anything else they might need to raise plants into mature products.<\/p>\n

But soon after Oklahomans in June 2018 voted to legalize medical marijuana, Baker noticed transportation costs for his hydroponic supplies were five times higher than normal.<\/p>\n

All of it, Baker realized, was going down to Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t even know they legalized medical,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

It only took three months for Baker and his wife to sell their Denver home, buy 110 acres outside Oklahoma City and move their operations east.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe follow the green rush,\u201d he said. \u201cAlways have.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to operating his own farm, Baker also manages the 90-acre grow in Okemah whose owners converted an old hay farm into what Baker claims is one of the largest cannabis plots in the nation.<\/p>\n

The Tribe Collective owners are Oklahomans from a variety of backgrounds: oil and gas, tech and even Hollywood. They ditched the old industries and went all-in on growing bud.<\/p>\n

The sprawling farm sits on a 900-acre property, replete with multiple greenhouses, a state-of-the-art extraction lab, walk-in freezer \u2014 and that\u2019s before you get to the outdoor grows. Driving down the dusty dirt road, it looks like it could be any rural swath of American heartland.<\/p>\n

But then you see the plants \u2014 more than 40,000 of them swaying gently in neat rows of fields with names like \u201cSkinny Marie\u201d and \u201cLucky Day.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a recent, oppressively hot Oklahoma summer day, workers drenched in sweat installed rope lines to keep the plants upright. Nearby, Baker and his team strategized about the best ways to keep irritating caterpillars off the marijuana leaves, discussing plans to expand even further on the seemingly endless property.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople used to say \u2018Oklahoma\u2019 like a cuss word when we moved here,\u201d Baker said with a laugh. \u201cBut this will prove to be the biggest cannabis state in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

For New Orleans native Jeff Henderson, Colorado served as a crash course in cannabis. But it was time to take the training wheels off.<\/p>\n

Henderson \u2014 who goes by \u201cFreaux,\u201d a shortened, Cajun version of \u201cJeffro\u201d \u2014 did a bit of everything in Colorado\u2019s marijuana scene. Bottom of the totem pole stuff. Trench work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was trying to break into the scene, getting licenses, getting investors,\u201d he said. \u201cBut Colorado real estate is god-awful expensive, the licenses are expensive. I kinda came up short in that realm.\u201d<\/p>\n

So when Oklahoma legalized medical marijuana, Henderson jumped at the opportunity to get in on the ground floor.<\/p>\n

He and his partners, who had Oklahoma ties, didn\u2019t have deep pockets, but some savings here, a bridge loan from a friend there, and the wide-eyed cannabis connoisseurs had themselves a boot-strapped business.<\/p>\n

They worked 16-hour days, the four partners doing the work of 10 people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re the furthest guys from corporate,\u201d Henderson said on a recent day inside his Jive Cannabis facility in Inola, a town 25 miles east of Tulsa. As he showed off his plants, pointing out the deep-purple coloring, Henderson took the tone of a proud father.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were just four guys with a hope and a dream,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u2014 \u201cUnprecedentedly low barriers to entry\u201d<\/p>\n

Everything changed for Baker, Henderson and the state of Oklahoma on June 26, 2018, when 57% of voters checked the \u201cyes\u201d box on legalizing medical marijuana.<\/p>\n

In the months leading up to the vote, a frenzied coalition of state medical and hospital associations, district attorneys, sheriffs, the State Chamber of Oklahoma and the state\u2019s Republican governor lined up to oppose the measure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a bad public health policy that does not resemble a legitimate medical treatment program,\u201d Dr. Kevin Taubman, former president of the Oklahoma State Medical Association and chairman of the opposition group, told the Associated Press after the vote passed.<\/p>\n

Then-Gov. Mary Fallin feared the proposal was essentially legalizing recreational marijuana.<\/p>\n

Many Oklahomans, including those in the cannabis industry, wouldn\u2019t argue. Up and down the board, there were very few restrictions put in place on who could operate a grow, how many there could be and how easy it would be to obtain a medical card.<\/p>\n

Unlike in many states, including Colorado, patients don\u2019t need qualifying medical conditions in order to get a card. Doctors sometimes would set up outside dispensaries, offering their services. Websites with names like NuggMD and PrestoDoctor promised customers a medical marijuana card online in 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

Business licenses cost just $2,500, a fraction of the price in other states, making it possible for nearly anyone with a bit of cash to start a grow or dispensary.<\/p>\n

In Arkansas, on the other hand, a licensing fee runs $100,000 \u2014 plus a $500,000 performance bond. In New York, an application costs $10,000, with a $200,000 registration fee.<\/p>\n

Colorado charges roughly $7,500 for initial recreational and medical shop licenses, and renewing that license annually will run an operator thousands more each time, depending on how many plants they want to grow.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the \u201cfinding of suitability\u201d fee \u2014 a state check to make sure someone is allowed to actually run a business. That\u2019s another $800 per person, or $5,000 for a publicly traded company. Not to mention, of course, the local fees that come on top of the state\u2019s, which can run thousands more per year.<\/p>\n

The costs quickly add up.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Colorado companies or individuals can\u2019t just grow as many plants as they wish on their own \u2014 they must apply with the state in order to add or subtract plants.<\/p>\n

Cities and counties in Oklahoma, meanwhile, aren\u2019t allowed to outlaw dispensaries or grow operations \u2014 another major break from states like Colorado, where despite legalization, the drug is still barred from being sold recreationally in many local jurisdictions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are unprecedentedly low barriers to entry\u201d in Oklahoma, said John Hudack, a cannabis expert at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution, a Washington D.C., think tank.<\/p>\n

With typical roadblocks and red tape shoved to the side, the industry has exploded.<\/p>\n

Nearly 376,000 Oklahomans \u2014 roughly 10% of the state\u2019s population \u2014 have medical marijuana cards, by far the highest share in the country, according to the Marijuana Policy Project.<\/p>\n

New Mexico, by contrast, has the second-highest number at 5.35%, with Colorado at 1.5%.<\/p>\n

Even at the height of Colorado\u2019s medical marijuana boom in 2011, however, the state topped out at 128,698 patients, a third of Oklahoma\u2019s total, and just 2.5% of the state population.<\/p>\n

The cost difference between getting in the game in Colorado versus Oklahoma is stark.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo even think about opening a (marijuana) business in Colorado, you have to have a million dollars liquid to get the ball rolling,\u201d said McDonald, the Apothecary Farms executive.<\/p>\n

In Oklahoma? You can be fully vertically integrated for $7,500, Henderson said.<\/p>\n

Cheaper land prices, building costs and license fees mean \u201cit\u2019s easily 10 times cheaper here than in Denver,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Those factors, combined with the state\u2019s hands-off approach, means it\u2019s getting awfully crowded in Oklahoma\u2019s cannabis space.<\/p>\n

Some states that legalized marijuana created a small, set number of licenses. Arkansas, for example, allows for only 40 dispensaries in the state. Connecticut has just four cannabis producers and 18 dispensaries nearly a decade after legalizing medical marijuana.<\/p>\n

But Oklahoma decided to let the free market run unencumbered. As a result, the state is now home to nearly 12,600 marijuana business licenses, including more than 8,600 growers and upwards of 2,300 dispensaries.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s more than double Colorado\u2019s combined recreational and medical stores \u2014 despite the fact that Oklahoma has some 1.8 million fewer people. The Centennial State has more than 1,200 cultivation operations, per state data, nearly seven times fewer than Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

The town of Bristow, a 4,200-person community nestled between Oklahoma City and Tulsa, used to thrive on oil and cotton. Its downtown strip along historic Route 66 has a few restaurants, a host of vacant buildings \u2014 and three dispensaries.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the story all over Oklahoma, where small towns from the panhandle to the Missouri border boast more pot shops than grocery stores. Meanwhile, Oklahoma County, which is home to Oklahoma City, now sports 530 dispensaries \u2014 three times as many as Denver.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople see this as an opportunity to enter a market that\u2019s costly elsewhere and so there\u2019s this rush of people who think they\u2019re going to make it rich,\u201d Hudack said. \u201cWe know how this story plays out. We saw a less permissive system operate in Oregon and they ended up with hundreds of thousands of pounds of excess inventory.\u201d<\/p>\n

McDonald called it the \u201cArmageddon stage\u201d for Oklahoma cannabis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are serious windfalls that come with barriers being so low,\u201d he said. \u201cThe market is so oversaturated in Oklahoma. What this has done is make it a true buyer\u2019s market. Things are so competitive, it\u2019s a race to the bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Industry watchers predicted a bloodbath in the near future as companies peter out, selling for pennies on the dollar.<\/p>\n

The freedom to operate has been the driving force bringing companies to Oklahoma \u2014 but some are finding that the lack of regulation is hurting those trying to do things the right way.<\/p>\n

On the surface, the Oklahoma market seemed incredibly enticing for Clear Cannabis Inc., a legacy cannabis company headquartered in Denver: a plethora of clients, endless shelves to stock its products.<\/p>\n

But without the regulator framework, \u201cit makes it challenging for a compliant business like us to truly succeed,\u201d said Seth Wiggins, the company\u2019s president.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma marijuana regulators still lack an important tool to ensure compliance: a seed-to-sale tracking system used in nearly every other state with a medical or recreational cannabis program. The system lets regulators track a plant\u2019s movement anywhere, so if it\u2019s found, say, in New York, they know exactly where it came from.<\/p>\n

The state tried rolling it out \u2014 only to be met with a lawsuit alleging the company, Metrc, acted as a monopoly since businesses were not given any other options to track their plants. The matter is still working its way through the legal system.<\/p>\n

Without seed-to-sale tracking, Wiggins and other industry workers said, less compliant individuals can more easily divert weed elsewhere without detection. Plus, companies skirting the rules are offering prices that Wiggins and other legitimate competitors can\u2019t touch.<\/p>\n

\u201cFolks doing it right are getting penalized right now,\u201d Wiggins said, noting that the company\u2019s sales are \u201csubstantially lower than we would have anticipated\u201d in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma\u2019s medical marijuana regulators are rapidly staffing up to meet the demand of the burgeoning industry \u2014 even recruiting some of their top people from Colorado.<\/p>\n

Taylor Hartin, the state\u2019s deputy director of compliance and enforcement, who came from Colorado\u2019s private sector, said the agency paused field inspections during the COVID-19 pandemic, but is now increasing its work.<\/p>\n

\u2014 \u201cWe\u2019re not going to tolerate it\u201d<\/p>\n

That lack of regulation is also frustrating state and local law enforcement officials, who say the drug\u2019s hasty legalization ushered in an alarming rise in illicit grows and other criminal activity.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s difficult to put a number on a market that lives in the shadows, officials say anecdotal evidence points to out-of-staters, including people from Colorado, coming into Oklahoma to operate unregulated operations.<\/p>\n

Nearly every week brings another news story about large raids conducted across Oklahoma, where, authorities allege, people are growing and shipping vast quantities of marijuana for sales out of state.<\/p>\n

The illicit grows also bring in other ancillary crime, including prostitution, harder drugs like ketamine and labor trafficking, said Mark Woodward, spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics.<\/p>\n

When the agency saw how the new marijuana law was written three years ago, they knew people would come to the state to take advantage, he said.<\/p>\n

But law enforcement didn\u2019t realize just how many people it would be \u2014 and how quickly they would set up shop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a Trojan horse,\u201d Woodward said. \u201cWe let this into our village because it looked really good on the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bureau of Narcotics simply can\u2019t keep up with the number of illicit grows, he said. In response, Oklahoma has asked for $4 million in federal funding to battle the unregulated marijuana market, with the state legislature promising additional money to fund a unit dedicated to the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we will be concentrating on is drug trafficking organizations that are transnational and national drug organizations that have infiltrated Oklahoma,\u201d Donnie Anderson, the agency\u2019s director, told local reporters in July as he announced the federal aid request. \u201cThey\u2019re here in Oklahoma and they\u2019re not going away anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June, authorities in rural eastern Oklahoma arrested two Colorado individuals for allegedly operating an illicit 10,000-plant grow as part of a larger transnational money-laundering operation. When officers raided the property, they also found 100 pounds of processed marijuana.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say 60% of the grows in Haskell County are from Colorado residents,\u201d said Turner, the Haskell County sheriff \u2014 though he didn\u2019t provide any hard data.<\/p>\n

A tour through the 12,000-person county, located 100 miles southeast of Tulsa, showed old chicken coops being converted into grow houses on vast parcels of land, their white tops visible through a thicket of trees lining the roadway.<\/p>\n

As Undersheriff Terry Garland drove slowly past grow houses, he glanced over to see the license plates in the driveways. Some had Minnesota tags, others showed Washington and Oregon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m gonna run those plates later,\u201d he said as he inspected one car.<\/p>\n

For Garland and Turner, legal marijuana has upset their rural slice of life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe price of our land has gone up, and citizens can\u2019t swim in their pools because they have to smell marijuana growing every day,\u201d Turner said. \u201cFolks here growing are not even residents of Oklahoma. They come here because it\u2019s the Wild West \u2014 well, we\u2019re not going to tolerate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it first started, Garland said, people in the county would laugh when they smelled weed coming from next door.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow they\u2019re not laughing,\u201d he said, pausing to point out a new grow operation that seems to have sprung up overnight. \u201cA lotta people hate the idea that it\u2019s in our county.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gary Coyle just can\u2019t believe what the influx of pot farmers has done to real estate in this rural community.<\/p>\n

A former welder, Coyle was forced out of his old career as his health declined and needed a new source of income. One day two years ago, his brother suggested he open up one of those marijuana dispensaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know a damn thing!\u201d he said regarding his previous cannabis knowledge. Coyle never smoked himself, abiding by his father\u2019s old axiom that the drug \u201cputs you in prison or puts you in the grave.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the grows are legal in town, Coyle said he doesn\u2019t mind, but he wishes sales were better in his shop. After the 10th of the month, when everyone in town has spent their paycheck already, sales slow to a trickle.<\/p>\n

He and Garland swapped stories about land prices inside Coyle\u2019s G&C Dispensary in Keota, expressing disbelief at what some of their friends and family were being offered. Since legalization, out-of-towners have been showing up to people\u2019s doorsteps, offering four, five, eight times the value for their land \u2014 and the ability to pay in cash, they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018You done fell out the well and hit your head!\u2019\u201d Coyle said after reciting a story about one particular offer.<\/p>\n

\u2014 \u201cOklahomans are outlaws\u201d<\/p>\n

But despite the wishes of some Oklahomans, marijuana is here to stay. And the people it\u2019s attracting would surprise even themselves.<\/p>\n

Ten years ago, Billy Moon would have thought you were crazy if you told him he\u2019d one day be operating a professional cannabis business.<\/p>\n

The former Oklahoma City police detective spent his career dealing in the dark world of cartels and narcotics, his nights occupied taking down meth houses.<\/p>\n

But after being diagnosed with a form of blood cancer, the doctor told him to try cannabis. The cancer caused Moon to feel burning sensations in his hands and feet, but he realized that smoking and taking edibles would make the pain disappear.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was it,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought, \u2018We\u2019re missing (out) on something.\u2019 There\u2019s some obvious benefits to this plant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moon partnered with Rich Cardinal, a Colorado cannabis lifer, to set up a grow operation called Canna Culture on a family-owned piece of property in Chickasha, a small town 45 minutes southwest of Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

The former police detective is selling Cardinal on the Oklahoma way of doing business.<\/p>\n

\u201cOklahomans don\u2019t want that lazy, hippie vibe,\u201d Moon said next to an outdoor field full of cannabis. \u201cOklahomans are outlaws. It\u2019s a \u2018(expletive)-the-government\u2019 kind of attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the fact that a state as red as Oklahoma is leaning into legal cannabis should no longer be surprising, said Ricardo Baca, a former Denver Post journalist who was the country\u2019s first cannabis editor and founder of the Denver-based Grasslands marketing agency.<\/p>\n

The turning point, he said, came in 2016. When most of the country had its eyes peeled on the presidential upset, eight states \u2014 including deeply conservative ones like Arkansas, Montana and South Dakota \u2014 were quietly legalizing some form of marijuana, a precursor to places like Oklahoma turning from red to green.<\/p>\n

\u201cCannabis is no longer a partisan issue,\u201d Baca said. \u201cAnd we need to stop treating it as such.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in Okemah, Baker studied the drip irrigation system \u2014 a technique perfected in the Israeli desert \u2014 now used to grow tens of thousands of marijuana plants.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking at two tons of weed right here,\u201d he said, smiling.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Tribe Collective crew raked in 50,000 plants \u2014 the equivalent of 63,000 pounds of pot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s beautiful about Oklahoma,\u201d Baker said. \u201cThey call it the Wild West. Well, we\u2019re a little wild here. It\u2019s a business-friendly state. They don\u2019t overregulate any business here.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor good or for bad,\u201d he said, \u201cthat\u2019s what capitalism is supposed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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