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Below are links proving that CA is really going after the black market:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/us/marijua...ation.html
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Of the roughly 14 million pounds of marijuana grown in California annually, only a fraction — less than 20 percent according to state estimates and a private research firm — is consumed in California.
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This illicit trade has been strengthened by the increasing popularity of vaping, cannabis-infused candies, tinctures and other derivative products. Vape cartridges are much easier to carry and conceal than bags of raw cannabis. And the monetary incentives of trafficking also remain powerful: The price of cannabis products in places like Illinois, New York or Connecticut are typically many times higher than in California.
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In wildland areas, seizures of illicit pot by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife more than doubled in 2018 , the first year that recreational cannabis was legal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsAZQKpa3_A&a...&t=249
** Of the 360 National Guard troops dealing with immigration issues on the border, CA governor keeping 100 National Guard troops on the border, but shifting focus towards fighting drug and gun activity from trans-national organized crime at ports of entry.
** The other 260 troops will move to focus on fire suppression for upcoming fire season, and to combat illegal grows in northern CA, which also pose fire risks.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environmen...l-forests/
** Pesticides used in illegal grows is a newer problem and is pulling in groups typically focused on wildlife preservation.
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Integral Ecology Research Center, a nonprofit dedicated to the research and conservation of wildlife. They never planned to get into marijuana work, Wengert says. “But then all of our animals began to die.”