You must be the type that can't be wrong because it's incredibly condescending to lead off a response with "wrong." There's not huge money in growing pot for lazy mountain people looking to make an easy buck. You used to be able to sell lb's for thousands here in CO, and that is definitely not the case anymore. Everyone and their mother grows now, so if your stuff is even slightly mediocre there is isn't really a strong market for it here in state because of how many quality growers there are. If you want the old school black market prices of pre-2010 you have to move it out of state and there are crazy risks inherently involved in that, not to mention you start playing with federal charges that way, there are more people involved who can slip up, etc. You're giving these people too much credit. They are literally cabin-fevered mountain people who rarely leave their enclaves and even more rarely have contact with the outside world. There is very little money in something that everyone in state has access too and arguably most people buy now from recreational stores because the taxes directly contribute to our local schools and enforcement of health standards. Not to mention As all of this is happening with mj, heroin has come roaring into the picture because of our medical industry's over reliance on opioid prescription medications. Once the scripts run out, addicts have one drug to turn to. There's crazy money to be made for a solitary mountain person to cut down some cheap black tar they got from the cartel or cook some meth in a lab that is far removed from any law enforcement, and then sell it to the local communities for an easy buck and pull in customer/addicts who are guaranteed to come back for more.

Sure you can make great money growing pot for a legal warehouse, but the legal requirements to open a legal grow are crazy expensive. I have a close friend who is a "master grower" for a dispensary next to Mile High Stadium and he is making bank. In my opinion if you're growing in a massive way without the licenses to do so, and moving it on the black market or out of state you don't deserve to be making money because you would be stealing tax money from Colorado school children and not to mention putting the community around you at risk. Illegal growers cut a lot of corners because they aren't being tracked seed to sale like state licensed facilities are. We all have a legal right to grow our own according to our state constitution, but as you probably know personal consumption doesn't require more than a hand full of plants. That's not ever going to make you crazy money, like it did a decade ago.

But I digress. I hope they find out how and why those poor people in Coal Creek Canyon passed away.