LE has busted some growers here because they’re shipping to other states. I forgot to mention in my long comment above that over the CA border in Siskyou county that Russian, Bulgarian, and of course MX cartels, and Hmongs already there doing it a few years ago, bought huge tracts of land for mj growing. Once it was clear CA was going down the drain into legal mj, these tracts were bought. Of course, as in OR, most grow ops are not licensed so they’re still illegal. Freepers in some rural CA counties have commented and they have the same exact experiences as I’ve described.
Of course they destroy the environment with water theft, toxic chemicals and these gangs often use slave labor on their “farms”.