We're seeing more of this because of tightened border security. The more we tighten our border, the more we're going to see. It's easier for them to get away with growing it in Mexico, but it's getting harder for them to smuggle it into this country. Here they have to have smaller grows than they'd have in Mexico to avoid detection, so they have to focus more on quality than quantity to keep their profits up. Next they'll really start getting into growing indoors under lights like the Asian gangs do in Canada. Then the price of the super potent stuff will come down, as has happened in Canada. Average potency of marijuana on the street will go even higher.
Personally, I think it's time to regulate this entirely unregulated industry and take all those billions and billions of dollars in profits away from organized crime. Then tax paying law abiding farmers would be growing it on their farms and non one would be growing it in our national forests.
“. It’s easier for them to get away with growing it in Mexico,”
Not really. Down there they have to split the take with law enforcement. Up here they pretty much have free reign over hundreds of thousands of ‘protected’ uninhabited land where no one goes. They’re nearly impossible to spot by plane, though that’s how they find some.