A two-day raid of five industrial warehouses in White City, Oregon, seized 250 tons of illegal marijuana with an estimated street value of more than $500 million. The Oregon State Police (OSP) said the Nov. 18 and Nov. 19 searches resulted in one of the state’s largest marijuana seizures to date. The OSP said law enforcement was confronting international criminal cartels that are using narco slaves to grow marijuana on a massive scale in southern Oregon. White City is a small community in Jackson County, near the California state line. On Nov. 16, Jackson County Sheriff Nathan Sickler told lawmakers the crime rate—associated with the thousands of illegal marijuana farms that have sprung up this year in southern Oregon—had gone through the roof. “We’ve had stabbings, robberies, thefts, burglaries, homicides, sex crimes, motor vehicle accidents, DUIs, all related to the influx of the marijuana-cannabis industry in our valley,” Sickler said …