“The cartels, unencumbered by bureaucracy, have created a very efficient supply and distribution system. Something the central planners can learn from.”
Actually, the cartels are just as bad, even worse than the central planners.
The people who built the industry out of the gate are the small family farms, the boutique businesses.
The cartels create boom and bust. Chemicals. Pollution. Guns and killings. Destruction of the land.
I am related to several people in the business in this state. They want to hunt and summarily kill all the cartel growers.
Lots of small growers in Desert Hot Springs with very little business saavy.
It’s taken them a good year to start construction of their warehouse growing hydroponic systems.
Warehouses are just now being erected. Probably operational in about 3-6 months.
The businesses aren’t being backed by large money as they don’t even know how to buy and develop the land. Hard for them to get loans as they don’t prepare business plans for venture capital.
They are very ripe for large corporate takeover once established.