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Published: 07:28 EST, 3 March 2024 | Updated: 07:49 EST, 3 March 2024 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 battlin...

Nal t’eel, an ancient variety of Mexican corn, is under threat from imported hybrids. Now a distillery is trying to give it a boost by using it to make whiskey.Credit...Benedicte Desrus for The New York TimesSeveral distillers are using local heirloom grain and exporting to the United States, the heart of another co...