B.C. has a large consumer base in densely populated areas such as Vancouver and Victoria; and these areas host large homeless populations who also become addicted to drugs and alcohol ( 1650 homeless persons in Vancouver, 573 in Victoria.)
Gangs in B.C. struggle for power in drug trafficking due to stricter laws being implemented in Mexico to try and combat the Drug cartels.
Drugs can be brought in through the high traffic boarder as well as the expansive coast line. So B.C. is more accessible than places in land of the Coast. Large quantities of drugs exclusively cocaine are exchanged for Marijuana.
Geographically British Columbia offers very optimum growing conditions. B.C accounts for more than half of licensed growers/users of Marijuana. 54 % of people in B.C. have admitted to using pot before in their lives. Over 2/3 of Drug offences yearly are accounted to Marijuana.
Police raided a medical marijuana grow op in Abbotsford last Tuesday and found it to have eight times the limit of 35 plants, 295 plants were found on the property (Abbotsford Times.) The people who build grow ops, or get medical cards so they can try and legally sell weed have the choice to just not do that but they are tempted by the profit, maybe power, the feeling they get when they are high, or maybe they are selling drugs as a means to survive. But I think all of them are faced with 2 choices and they think that growing and selling weed or other drugs is the best option.
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