No less than the influential RAND Corporation, a leading-edge policy formulator, weighed in. This section of their report bodes well for California producers. RAND Corporation is a component in the apparatus of power and a barometer for shifts in policy. Their report suggests the fed may change the ground rules because CA could only export MJ to other states if the feds permitted interstate shipments.
-- If California exports its newly legal, high-quality, low-cost product to other states, it could undercut sales of Mexican marijuana in much of the U.S., cutting cartel marijuana export revenues by more than 65% and probably by 85% or more, read a report by RAND Corporation. In this scenario, the cartels would lose approximately 20% of their total drug export revenue. --