Sorry to burst your bubble but this is Colorado. It is legal. The grow shops are legally run by Americans. The cartels cannot compete with a legal free market. There are no shootouts over turf. Dogs are safer in their homes.
Hate to burst your bubbler, but illegal drugs from cartels still flood Colorado and other states.
Alcohol is legal but still we have illicit trade in it.
Cartels won’t simply walk away and haven’t.