wild, wild west in california. that s why they traded california for oklahoma to open their own shops. who are your customers? ? anywhere from a teacher to grandma. the state agency tasked with regulating is struggling, telling us they have only been able to inspect about a quarter of the licensed farms. we have not been able to keep up with demand. demands so high, they are finding this comes at a cost. we are talking about the water resource is over taxed and over used along with the uptick in the electric grids. oklahoma on track to surpass $1 million in retail sales, and it s clear this boom has taken root.
here in a room full of marijuana. nobody thought we would be here, right? now three years after the state legalized medical marijuana, more than 100 employees make sure their supply meets the surging demand. all it took to start is 2,500 to grow and no cap. 3,000 cannabis plants in this one room. you will have this on a store shelf how soon? 90 days. around 400,000 oklahomans with medical cannabis cards. oklahoma now home to more than 2,000 marijuana dispensaries, more than colorado and california. we are witnessing the second
something that we are seeing the president continue to push. this roundtable gets the president to use the ceos as an opportunity to show why it s needed and how it would spur investment and clean energy and the white house clearly continuing to try and push the message of build back better in whatever form. they want it to have a life, even if joe manchin says it s dead. conservative oklahoma, where only medical marijuana is legal, new markets sparked a frenzy. what kind of well-oiled machine you would expect to see in oklahoma. but make no mistake, folks here know a boom when they see one. we are in one of the reddest states in the country standing
and i don t see that, but some people get crazy watching others. the last thing we need in the united states is for everybody to copy any part of this. we have right-wing activists within the united states today that are furmenting this. thank you for being with us. and mccarthy responds to the claim that the january 6th is legitimate political debate. i think anybody that has entered this building, that rioting, it s about political discourse. he did not stop there. the rest after the break. also ahead, the green rush in one of the reddest states in the country, just three years after oklahoma legalized medical marijuana, the state is seeing a big boom. later, a figure skating
asked him about mike pence, and i said is there going to be a successor to the trump movement and will it be pence? bannon laughed he said, no, donald trump wants the next guy following him to lose by 40 points. that sums up the situation the republican party is in today and why people are assuming there s somehow going to be some type of tidy handoff like desantis or something are really mistaken. there s a lot of trump bucks out there, and i wrote one of them but you managed to find new details and new reporting and angles on this story in your new book, insergentcy. it s really riveting. oklahoma s marijuana boom. how a green rush came to the red state. red