Nightly News Films: Captives of Cannabis
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
NBC News
3.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All this weed was just seized in a raid by the San Bernardino County California Sheriff's |
| 0:05.4 | Department. |
| 0:06.4 | They say that the people grow in the marijuana with human trafficking victims. |
| 0:16.1 | You're watching Captives of Cannabis. |
| 0:18.4 | It's a name we chose for this documentary because the Chronicles are months long NBC News |
| 0:22.7 | investigation into labor trafficking in the marijuana black market. |
| 0:27.7 | The U.S. government defines labor trafficking as a form of modern day slavery. |
| 0:32.3 | And law enforcement tells us the labor trafficking in the marijuana black market is growing, even |
| 0:37.5 | though two-thirds of U.S. states have legalized marijuana. |
| 0:41.5 | That means that there's a chance at the pock that you smoke, you vape, or you eat could |
| 0:45.4 | have been grown by trafficking victims, captives of cannabis. |
| 0:49.8 | But as we saw and as you are about to see, not everything about this situation is clear |
| 0:54.8 | cut. |
| 0:55.8 | Good morning. |
| 0:56.8 | Appreciate everyone coming out. |
| 0:58.4 | It's just before 8 o'clock in the morning here in Lucerne Valley. |
| 1:00.8 | This is the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department and they're doing a briefing right |
| 1:04.2 | now for what is about to be a raid on what they say is a suspected illegal marijuana grow |
| 1:09.9 | run by Chinese organized crime. |
| 1:12.6 | Let's make sure you guys are safe and thank you again for coming out. |
| 1:15.0 | I appreciate it. |
| 1:16.4 | The San Bernardino Sheriff's Department has conducted hundreds of raids like this one since |
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