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Increasingly, I’ve been hearing from citizens worried about foreign investors attempting to purchase land in Oklahoma. More specifically, the concern is that they are buying up Oklahoma land to grow medical marijuana. Talking to my fellow members of the Legislature, it’s an issue that folks throughout the state are concerned about.

The issue of foreign investors targeting American land has been in the news for the past few years, but it seems to be an increasingly prominent issue. The articles I’ve read stated that according to a federal database that tracks American agricultural land held by...