WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Sen. Tom Cotton issued the following press release:
Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), along with Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine), Pete Ricketts (R-Nebraska), and Ted Budd (R-North Carolina), sent a letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche requesting an investigation into Communist Chinese criminal organizations operating illegal cannabis and intoxicating-hemp enterprises that threaten the health and safety of Arkansans.
In part, the Senators wrote:
"We write requesting that the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate the growing role of Chinese transnational criminal organizations in America's cannabis and intoxicating-hemp markets. Recent reporting and investigations suggest Chinese criminal networks are exploitin...