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A Boring Dystopia
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I don't think that was the reality of pre-legal weed, at least not much, at least here on the west coast. Most people i knew bought directly from harmless small scale operations or from someone who did. A lot of people worked chopping during harvest and got paid in weed.
Also i think large scale legal farms are much shadier and many have more connections to organized crime than you're considering.
Even if you the operators don't assassinate anyone, running illegal businesses will 99% of the time have other immoral side-effects. It's hard to keep an illegal business running while being 100% morally right.
If a farm has connections to organized crime, it's not growing it like any other crop.
I know people that grow normal crops, none of them have connections to organized crime.