It's manipulation of information so they can sell more weed for profit. Their head grower boasts constantly about how he gets all of one strain of clones from another state, where the guy growing them literally "smuggles" them into Oregon just by simply driving them across the bridge from Washington and gives them to a person in Oregon who owns a legally clone nursery. He forges paperwork so the clones appear to have been created by him in this state. Now a plant is a plant and who gives a shit where it was born or created. But, since a bunch of states are fringing on Federal problems and should really mind their local laws so as not to fuck this thing up for the whole world before it can even get enough steam.
Now adding keif to your own damn homegrown weed for personal consumption is a totally different ball game. I feel that if Company "A", that does the above shit that I know about at their OR location, who knows what they do in OR behind the scenes, and they have a location in WA probably doing a bunch of the same thing. If that same multi-million dollar operation pulled their heads out of their asses and simply invested say 10k into someone locally with a brain, they wouldn't have to fringe all the laws and do a bunch of shady underworld shit to get ahead.
The outdoor grow I worked for boasted and were very proud of their ethnicity, but when you get in house they were just a bunch of gangsters and nothing they did had to do with anything more then their love of cash and drugs. And they were pretty vocal about actually saying how much they love drugs, not weed, drugs. So I stepped out and went to the indoor grow. Left their after 2 months, technically was fired but I left without notice and never talked to them or anything, just got a call a week later saying I was fired. I was like oh really? You don't think maybe I quit since I bounced mid shift and didn't come back? I have an interview today with a small local family owned medical/rec grow to be a farm hand through Christmas roughly. They are only ten minutes away, hopefully it's not another gang banger hangout...
And I could go off forever, but I will leave it at that. You can judge my character by what I type. Grow your own pot everyone, it's that simple. :smoking: