^I like the schwag high, it's very similar to better weed but it seems to make me feel more sedated and have a kind of warm and heavy body high. Each to his own, but I dig the schwag high, it's never given me a headache or anything negative that people report all the time, mainly it just seems weaker then chronic but otherwise very similar.
Growing weed outdoors requires pretty much no skill and very little knowledge and no equipment except people to sow and harvest, a watering system and a location.
Growing indoors would require not only much more equipment but it would require people who knew how to grow hydroponic weed, who would need to be paid.
The cartels make huge quantities of money, shit, El Chapo is one of the world's richest men I think. They would have to change their operations and invest much more money for a potential small profit increase.
I like schwag, it has a different high then chronic that I enjoy sometimes, I can use it in blunts and joints without feeling like I'm burning money, a lot of it is pretty good and most importantly it's 6-10 times cheaper then chronic. There are a lot of people like me who choose to smoke schwag instead of or along with chronic, I usually like to have both. The cartels have a monopoly on the schwag market which they don't have on the chronic market.
So not only would they have to completly change their operations, they'd have to deal with smuggling the stuff into America and then they'd have to worry about competing with local growers and people growing domestically and exporting throughout the country from places like California and Colorado.
Basically, they make many millions of dollars importing many millions of pounds of weed, they are pretty much the only groups producing cheap, low- mid grade weed, and there's no reason for them to change how they do things.
By the way, a lot of the schwag coming out of Mexico is pretty good, it's like the level of mids if you know the right guy. So not all the stuff the cartels produce is terrible. Most of the stuff sold in Texas seems pretty good, the further you get from the border the worse and more expensive the schwag seems to get.
When it comes down to it, 60 dollars will get me 1.5 or 2 weeks of daily, heavy smoking from schwag and the same amount of money spent on chronic will have me needing to get more in half that time. I'm poor, schwag is more cost efficient so I like to buy a few grams of chronic and half an oz or 1 oz of schwag so I can mainly smoke schwag but have chronic for when I really want it. If I had the cash to buy chronic and roll blunts and joints all the time, I would, but I don't so the chronic goes in a bowl or an occaisional joint andn the schwag goes in the bong, joints and blunts.