The ‘Wild West of Weed’ Faces Its Toughest Test

Alex Knight collects buds as they exit the batch trimmer in Baker Farm, Wellston, Okla. | Photos by Charlie Neuenschwander for POLITICO MUSKOGEE, Okla. — Johnny Teehee was sworn in as police chief of Muskogee in the summer of 2018, barely three weeks after the state passed a referendum legalizing medical marijuana. Nearly five years later, as he patrols the city, he is overwhelmed by the transformation weed has wrought on this struggling eastern Oklahoma town. A block away from the First Baptist Church of Muskogee, where Teehee is a...