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We get some of the BC Bud around here but most of it is indoor grown in the local area. A lot of what I'd call large scale indoor (especially underground) growers around, and they can be quite sophisticated. An added source now is the permitted "caregivers" under the medical MJ law. The allowed on hand and in production quantities per "client" are so generous there is plenty of extra to put into the market. And they do.

At little risk because simply growing by a permitee is not a prima facie case for manufacturing/distribution, plus Oregon voters have done away with civil forfeiture absent an underlying conviction, and when there is a conviction and forfeiture, the cops don't get to keep the loot.

So that "like shooting fish in a barrel" sort of thrill is, as the old song goes, gone.

Things are different here than in Oregon. Average incomes are at the bottom end of the scale, even for professionals in most cases. It's hot as hell much of the year and indoor growing would require a lot of air conditioning. Mexican pot is everywhere and dirt cheap, and there is no way the higher potency of indoor grown pot comes anywhere close to justifying the exorbitant prices some people will pay for it. We have no medical marijuana and our cops and prosecutors make a killing from asset forfeitures, conviction or no conviction. Often we can buy a better deal for our clients by having them come up with a few grand or more as an “asset forfeiture” that prosecutors get to keep and use for important prosecutorial things like their “company cars,” cell phone bills, memberships to the gym, every kind of fancy techno gadget for their plush offices, sweet all expense paid continuing legal education trips, bonuses and a salary or two. And I almost forgot to include things like the furniture they “loaned” the chief judge for his private break room. It's a damned racket.