Mob and Mafia news Archer Davis reporting. Chinese gangs are behind thousands of illegal weed farms across the US, sparking fears that the Chinese Communist Party could become a new cannabis kingpin. Chinese gangs have set up thousands of illicit weed farms across the US as they begin to challenge mexican cartels for supremacy as America's cannabis kingpins. Authorities in Oklahoma, Oregon, California, New Mexico, and Maine have all been battling a surge in chinese weed farms, with some thought to be linked to criminal gangs known as triads