Has brought “this garbage” as in more cartel violence or garbage weed?

Caused more of the dehydrated stuff. It’s not even garbage before it’s processed, of course. The cartel factor is something I’m imagining is a whole other problem as I’m not fully informed on that but some of it was in response to commercialization being something they could exploit. My mom lives out in a rural area and she told me a lot of her conservative neighbors jumped on the bandwagon, put up greenhouses on their farms without permits. Enough time has passed where most of them even got busted and the more cartel-connected greenhouses (at least near her) were all raided and slashed to the ground, are now abandoned ecological disasters.

I agree with you the rollout and the naivete of legislation contributed to the opportunities for organized crime to rush in and fill the void.

Supply has increased and Finland doesn’t need to import weed from anywhere so we don’t have any cartels really and our own organised criminal organisations are pretty fucking mild compared to anything the US sees.

Yeah, we have never needed to import so supply and demand isn’t the only driver. The fact that we are Alta California, connected to Baja California explains the sort of Breaking Bad networks that can flow up and down. I no longer live in the Bay Area so I don’t hear too much about this but I knew people who described a whole other world, say North of San Francisco. I’m ashamed to say I grew up exploring California but, like most folks, true Northern California is an enigma to most of us. I believe the people I know who have firsthand descriptions of it. We’ve been friends for a long time and they had friends who were running their own illegal ops going way back to before our clumsy legalization.

Northern Europe really understands quality of life and is so impressive to me.