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Weed is a plant that can rot. This makes its transport more finicky, and more bulky.

Pills are much easier to transport, particularly fentanyl with its small dosing amount. And one of the most dangerous things is meth, since recently it’s now being developed from shelf-stable chemicals. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...

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That's silly. Weed is exactly that, a WEED, it grows freaking everywhere why the need for transport?

There are definitely economies of scale when it comes to farming and weed is no exception. That, and taking advantage of cheaper labor costs elsewhere (like Mexico)

That, and it may be easier to grow in a laxer jurisdiction and transport it to a stricter one, than just trying to grow it in a strict one.

Salad grows pretty much everywhere, but we still transport most of it from Mexico or California, with a pretty hefty set of infrastructure components from farms to hordes of pickers to refridgerated trains to grocery stores.

(It's also not a weed, really, just like it's not a pot.)

THC/CBD containing edibles, oils and capsules come to mind.

The problem is that in an illicit market, there isn‘t QA to make sure what you‘re getting is of consistent quality, which is why I don‘t like getting edibles in such places.

I mean, there are test kits, I just don‘t want to bother.

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