Good question. I wish I had a good answer. You updated your post while I was writing my reply haha Indeed, I believe you nailed it on the update A friend had

Good question. I wish I had a good answer. You updated your post while I was writing my reply haha Indeed, I believe you nailed it on the update A friend had a situation where he grew a few thousand pounds too much in Oregon before his dispensaries had opened. However, the regulators knew he had produced it all and forced him to sit on the inventory... He decided to send excess trim (waste leaf trimming) from his operations in California up and bring the quality flower back to Cali to sell on the black market here. This was illegal, obviously! Later, he happily destroyed the "excess" in Oregon! Same guy, a year later had facilium wilt and powdery mildew infect his 1000 light operation in LA. He had to destroy thousands of pounds there.. but he really moved it to the black market. I feel sorry for the people that smoked those flowers. It's a shady industry! There is bullshit and fraud everywhere.