just offshore as well. elsewhere, some heavier downpours, but most of it will be light and patchy. scotland and northern ireland, one or two showers continue, though most of those we'll see this evening will fade away. some clearer skies here, but not as cold as last night. temperatures for most in double figures. it's here that we'll cross scotland and northern ireland. best of the brightness before some showers arrive from the northwest later on. a cloudy start for england and wales, outbreaks of rain and drizzle around. heaviest bursts down these eastern coastal counties to begin with — that will fade away. a few showers through the bristol channel later, we think, brightening up towards the south coast and the channel islands. still some sunny spells, southern scotland, northern ireland, and eventually developing into northern england. but if the cross northern england towards the east where we're seeing the winds coming in off the chilly sea — 13—14 degrees, the highs. certainly will feel chillier, maybe 20 degrees, in any sunnier spells. into sunday evening and overnight, showers in scotland and northern ireland will drift a little bit further south. lots of cloud still towards the south, but turning wetter through the english channel and the channel islands,

and as we go into the summer solstice, a bit of a chilly note where skies are clear, northern england, northern parts of scotland in particular. for the summer solstice, there's always high pressure trying to build in, but unlike last week, it's the north that's dragging in cooler air for the summer solstice, and this weather system is giving us a few headaches to just how far north it gets. certainly looks like it's going to be wet, areas bordering the english channel on monday. that could get a bit further northwards into south wales, maybe the south midlands, parts of east anglia, but elsewhere, most will have a dry day. best of the sunshine in the west, cloudy and cold wind across eastern areas. it's only going to be around 13—15 degrees again along those eastern coasts, most places colder than normal. chilly night will then follow, and into tuesday, a lot more in the way of drier weather. it will be perhaps the brightest day most widely across the country with some good sunny spells, losing that easterly wind, so temperatures come up a little bit across eastern coasts. and then, through the rest of the week, it looks like we flip things over — scotland, northern ireland seeing a bit more rain for a time, drier for england and wales before all of us see wet weather by friday.

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party looks for another leader. and, as they say, never write off the germans — they come back from a goal down to register their first win at the euros. now on bbc news, as more us states move to legalise marijuana, there has been a rush to cash in on the business. in new mexico, a bizarre boom and bust of marijuana has become a cautionary tale. this is the latest front line of a cannabis plume in the us. a massive illegal marijuana operation on native american land. the suspects were found in a motel where they occupied 19 rooms. police found around £2000 of marijuana plants and substances in multiple rooms.

there is evidence of human beings that are not here any more, they have just vanished. in the summer of 2020, hundreds of chinese immigrants moved to new mexico, believing that they were taking well—paid jobs on hemp farms. they found themselves prey to unscrupulous entrepreneurs who took advantage of the confusing laws that govern this industry. navajo nation farmers are calling for help. as more us states move to legalise marijuana, people are cashing in on the so—called green gold rush. but some see the events in new mexico as a warning of things to come. this is a cautionary tale to our leaders tale to our leaders, our policymakers, our lawmakers that if you don't carefully plan out your laws and regulations, it can cause a big problem. we trace the origins of this case a californian

and explore how a similar crisis could be brewing in oklahoma. when you drive through here, the air is fresh, before the hustle and bustle. it's very mind settling, you put your soul at ease. bea has lived on her property in shiprock for 30 years. new development is tightly controlled by tribal bureaucracy, when the tribal democracy was struggling with but injune 2020, when the tribal democracy was struggling with the pandemic, she was shocked to find this new development. they picked the navajo nation to set up shop.

you wake up the next morning, boom, there's hoop houses. i'm not talking about one or two, i'm talking about 25 that turned up overnight. also medical marijuana is legal in new mexico, both hemp and marijuana are illegal on tribal land. from a distance, you don't know what it is — you just see plants. until you actually zoom in and you realise, this is marijuana. the distinction between marijuana and hemp was central to the problems in new mexico. the cannabis plant has different kinds of by—products depending on how it's grown. the main difference is the thc level, the psychoactive compound that causes a user high. hemp has almost no thc and can be grown as an industrial crop for things like textiles and bio fuels.

marijuana, on the other hand, has a high thc level and is considered a controlled substance. last summer, struggling with job scarcity amid the pandemic, hundreds of chinese workers left a traditional immigrant left traditional immigrant enclaves in california and new york to find work in the cannabis boom.

in new mexico, he linked up with this man, a former civil engineer and never how farm official, he claimed he had the authority to issue hemp permits. a questionable assertion at best, it was still enough to get the fans up and running. to get the farms up and running. but red flags were quickly raised. you just see these massive operations, huge greenhouses, gates locked, you see cars coming and going at all times of night, most of them with foreign plates. very evident something very strange was going on in this community. this man worked as a security guard. there are nojobs, people couldn't go out of the reservation to go to work. when he started, it opened up a whole new financial situation for everybody. we had 38 fields and hundreds of employees. when i noticed it going for she was when i was not allowed on some of the fields.

people were stealing the hemp out of the forums, they were getting high, some of them said they were getting headaches and just by the look of it and the smell, it didn't add up. you people are like this hemp is still far allowing you people are like this hemp sre allowing this kind of financing to our community. billy's mother feared for her son's safety. tensions grew. you're a traitor! billy's mother feared for her son's safety. shots were being fired down on the farms, protesters were running people off the road. i didn't know if he was going to come home. i didn't know if i was going to get a call from the police department.

i started telling my son, "you need to get out of there, "i don't want you to be caught in this mess." but he kept saying, "well, the boss hasn't paid me yet." as the farming operation sprang up around her, bea led fierce protests against the so—called hemp business. it was a blue sedan that was in front of the hemp fields in front of my house. two none—natives got out and assault rifles. that's what took me by surprise, that this can'tjust be hemp. this is what it's come down to, i never had to have these firearms in my residence, but when it comes to your family's safety, you go to extremes to protect them.

the suspects were found staying in a farmington motel where they occupied 19 rooms. police found around 2000lb of marijuana plants and substances in multiple rooms. less tha n less than six months after growers arrived in new mexico, police raided and set down doesn't of farms. and shut down dozens of farms. what they found was high—grade marijuana, not hemp. it is eerie that the evidence of human beings that are not here any more, they have just vanished. they just vanished. people had to pick up and leave it as fast as possible this

this speaks to how quickly people thought they had to get out of here. there are some people back here and we are looking for records, information and evidence, controlled substance, including marijuana, thc, drug paraphernalia, scales. police arrested 17 chinese workers trimming the buts workers trimming the buds kicked out at marijuana plants in a hotel. off marijuana plants in a hotel. 0thers living in trailer homes packed up and left overnight. itjust looks like someone turned and ran and just left everything behind. they were later released as victims of human trafficking. some of them believed they were just cutting flowers. .

the boss has been charged by the navajo nation with assault and other offences and there's open federal investigation into his farms. he's insisted that what he did it was for the good of the navajo people. but others say this was just the result of greed. he declined to be interviewed for the programme or to provide a statement. we have somebody who decided to make up their own rules and circumvent established law in the navajo nation. there wasn't legal business license, we're talking of thousands of asian immigrant workers, we don't know if their payroll was taxed or even if they got paid. this is the cautionary tale to our leaders and policymakers and lawmakers across the united states that

if we don't carefully plan out the laws and regulations, it can cause a big problem. archive: the police narcotics detail rate | narcotics detail raids this field of marijuana. wherever a part of a marijuana cigarette is thrown, seeds grow up and become a plantation. in the us, cannabis was officially outlawed in 1970 alongside other drugs like lsd. alongside drugs like heroin and lsd. but as public opinion shifted, local governments have been pushing to legalise cannabis in opposition to federal law. california is about to vote again and decriminalising marijuana. i on decriminalising marijuana. in the 1990s, dozens of us states started to legalise cannabis for medical use. colorado was the first solo recreational use. today, most states of legalise cannabis on some level but the restrictions vary from state to state. this is made the legality of prostate transportation,

sales and conservation more complicated and it fuels a black market across the country. after the fiasco in new mexico, many chinese investors lost their life savings. but a new opportunity was on the horizon. for irving and his clients, it was an obvious choice to move to oklahoma, the hottest new market in the us today. to move to oklahoma, the hottest weed market in the us today. it's kind of a wild, wild west. 0klahoma didn't set any limits on the number of licences they would issue, you could drive down the street and find

dispensaries all around us. this couple obtained one of the first licences and run a dispensary outside of oklahoma city. we have three containers we grow in, some of these grow houses are 10,000 square feet. last year, 0klahoma issued more grow licences than any other states, licences than any other state. nearly 10% back of its population are registered to use medical cannabis. the big—leaf plants tend to be enter they relax people and these plants are sativa, they give you energy and focus. oklahoma is known to be a very red state but the interesting thing is the number of very elderly people who are interested in cannabis now. more people are accepting of it as a medicinal plant. it smells really good. kind of a lemony... in 0klahoma, a cannabis

licence only cost $2500, far less than ten to thousands of dollars in states like california. cheap land and electricity brought an influx of out—of—state growers and competition. there's huge benefits, we've found, and we've there's huge benefits we've found, and werve we've found, and we're proud of it and we feel we're helping somebody. but the market is turned completely upside down. it's grown so fast and so much, in the state of oklahoma, there's no way they can visit all of these places and check them out, so you're inviting the illicit players into the game. behind the fence here, there's a trailer house that i don't know how many people live in. this is just rural land available for houses, but they have enclosed their area and have their own power grid in there. in the sleepy rural town, a group of chinese american

in this sleepy rural town, a group of chinese american growers started a massive marijuana farm. its owner declined to be filmed, but proudly showed us around his new cultivation rooms. at the farm, a dozen chinese farm hands work around the clock. for them, this is living the american dream. the owner says his farm does everything by the book.

but it's only legal to grow marijuana in oklahoma for consumption in oklahoma, and some fear the market may be flooded. if they made it totally recreational, there's only 4 million people in oklahoma. not even. so, that's no weight beacon consumed here. there's no way they can consume all this _ i just want them to operate under the same rules we operate under a comment. it's difficult to compete with people who don't follow the rules. in april, the bureau of narcotics detained ten people from china and taiwan for allegedly selling bulk marijuana on the black market.

he advertises safe and abundant water and electricity. to chinese growth that we met in oklahoma is confident that the market will keep growing. but going forward, climber�*s cannabis market will not be the same. it's happening in a climber, the prices are dropping. unless this state to tighten things up and really enforces the rules, i don't think it's going to get better before it gets worse. it's a gold rush or a curse, i don't know which, in oklahoma. as public opinion in cannabis in the us quickly shift towards decriminalisation and legalisation, dineh benally and irving lin wanted to get ahead of the curve. to me, they are overregulated. it's for the people.

last year, a poll showed a majority of adults support legalisation, the highest percentage in decades. with a democratic president in office there has been a strong push to legalise marijuana on a federal level. disproportionally, young men and women of colour have been arrested and jailed for even carrying a small amount of marijuana. i believe the time has come to end the federal prohibition on marijuana in this country. but president biden has tread carefully on marijuana reform. the present supports leaving decisions to the states. he also supports legalising medicinal marijuana.

whether full legalisation happens or not, lin believes the chinese committee will continue to invest in cannabis. the navajo community, however, has been left deeply divided. i have been shot at twice. this damaged my headlights, they don't work any more. i didn't want this to happen, i wasjust in it so i can work. billy tried to stay away

from home as much as possible to protect his family. everyone at one time was for the hemp because they lost theirjobs in the pandemic. all of a sudden, things changed, people had a change of mind, the smell, the odour, loud noises, people didn't like that. everybodyjust talked against each other and i don't think that's going to be corrected for a while. redfeather has replaced dineh benally as the new farm board president. for her, healing won't come easy. i know the community numbers are still very upset because now we're battling the clean—up. you can see it here, it's an eyesore. a lot of people ask me, why are you doing this, why do you want to shut it down? hemp is good. and i know the difference between hemp and marijuana.

i'm not against hemp, i'm against how dineh benally and that farm board came up with the hemp license which is not a pro through the navajo nation government. at the end of all of this, with the community are stepping up, protest after protest, we were successful. feeling rejected by his own community, billy now works out of town. because of all the stuff that happened to me, ijust don't feel welcome any more, iwould rather live in my vehicle where no one knows me. in april 2021, the oklahoma senate approved legislation to force disclosure of foreign investment and marijuana business is. in marijuana business is.

in marijuana businesses. more states across america are expected to legalise recreational cannabis but on tribal lands, it's unclear if a similar policy shift will happen any time soon. good evening. across england and wales, the weather has certainly taken a turn for the wetter. more rain to come for many through tonight. that rain has been pushing up from the bay of biscay during recent hours. this clump of cloud here continuing to work its way northwards before it sort of pushes out in towards the north sea later in the night. but there could be some heavy bursts of rain around kent, essex, suffolk, norfolk. could be some torrential downpours, some rumbles of thunder just offshore as well.

elsewhere, some heavier downpours, but most of it will be light and patchy. scotland and northern ireland, one or two showers continue, though most of those we'll see this evening will fade away. some clearer skies here, but not as cold as last night. temperatures for most in double figures. it's here that we'll cross scotland and northern ireland. best of the brightness before some showers arrive from the northwest later on. a cloudy start for england and wales, outbreaks of rain and drizzle around. heaviest bursts down these eastern coastal counties to begin with — that will fade away. a few showers through the bristol channel later, we think, brightening up towards the south coast and the channel islands. still some sunny spells, southern scotland, northern ireland, and eventually developing into northern england. but if the cross northern england towards the east where we're seeing the winds coming in off the chilly sea — 13—14 degrees, the highs. certainly will feel chillier, maybe 20 degrees, in any sunnier spells. into sunday evening and overnight, showers in scotland and northern ireland will drift a little bit further south. lots of cloud still towards the south, but turning wetter through the english channel and the channel islands, and as we go into the summer solstice, a bit of a chilly note where skies are clear, northern england, northern parts of scotland in particular. for the summer solstice, there's always high pressure trying to build in, but unlike last week, it's

the north that's dragging in cooler air for the summer solstice, and this weather system is giving us a few headaches to just how far north it gets. certainly looks like it's going to be wet, areas bordering the english channel on monday. that could get a bit further northwards into south wales, maybe the south midlands, parts of east anglia, but elsewhere, most will have a dry day. best of the sunshine in the west, cloudy and cold wind across eastern areas. it's only going to be around 13—15 degrees again along those eastern coasts, most places colder than normal. chilly night will then follow, and into tuesday, a lot more in the way of drier weather. it will be perhaps the brightest day most widely across the country with some good sunny spells, losing that easterly wind, so temperatures come up a little bit across eastern coasts. and then, through the rest of the week, it looks like we flip things over — scotland, northern ireland seeing a bit more rain for a time, drier for england and wales before all of us see wet weather by friday.

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