[familyop]

"These synthetic drugs are manufactured in clandestine labs (mostly in China) for export around the globe."

They'll probably be easily passed off as concentrated pot products in resort areas, where pot has been legalized. Legalized pot provides easy cover for such drugs, because police shy away from busting drivers in general.

[discostu]

Legalized pot takes away the reason for these drugs. Same reason bootlegging mostly evaporated when Prohibition was repealed. Back markets can’t compete with white markets on quality, price or convenience. Unless the government screws up the white market with over taxation and regulation.