On the morning of 22 February 2022, more than 300 officers from the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and other agencies executed twelve search warrants at nine licensed cannabis farms and three houses across Oklahoma, in what the agency called the biggest illegal-marijuana bust in state history.[1][2] The farms were suspected of diverting cannabis to out-of-state illicit markets behind valid medical-marijuana licences, using so-called ghost owners and fraudulent business structures.[2]

Officers seized more than 100,000 plants and over 2,000 pounds (about 907 kg) of processed marijuana, which the agency valued at over 500 million dollars.[1][2] Thirteen arrest warrants were served and five people were in custody by noon, including a woman the agency described as a large-scale broker moving marijuana across the United States and abroad.[1] Edibles Magazine later put the warrant total at seventeen: thirteen in Oklahoma, one in California and three in Texas.[2]

The three homes, in Edmond, Norman and Mustang, were believed to be stash houses for cash and product.[1][2] The largest farm raided was the 80-acre Big Buddha Farms in Wilson, with more than 500 structures on its premises.[2] Farm workers were not targeted for arrest; the agency said it screened them for human trafficking and let them go.[2]