It's nice to see things never change and the RG still has its' head in the mud.  Illegal grows existed way before legal marijuana. If the illegal marijuana is being exported and Oregon is producing more legally than can be consumed explain how this robs the state and taxpayers of revenue since sales out-of-state are not taxed.  That is nonsensical   If marijuana is exported it is also hard to see how it undermines legal growers since the legal growers can not export.  The editorial talks about what Oregon voters support  The current system is not what the voters approved having been replaced in by a legislative scheme. Likewise the steady legislative degradation of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program is certainly contrary to the will of the voters. There is a strong implication in all of this that legal growers are engaged in illegal exports- where are the facts to back this up? Regulating the black market has failed for decades and it always will: Prohibition always fails.