It was so interesting to see the shift of cannabis manufactured in South America and Nepal regions to now North America. North America now grows the best weed in the world. This shift took only 20 years of seed sales and hybrids. I can remember back 20 years ago when weed was commonly 'brick weed' from Mexico that was weak and full of sticks and seeds. That was all you could get. There were no buds or skunk weed. And if you planted the seeds from the brick weed, they never turned out right because their growing season was too long. Then people figured out the indica strains from Nepal region were perfectly suited for indoors and north american climates. They stayed short with a short growing season from their natural mountain habitat. Those grew well in North America and indoors. They became medical grades and used for making hashes. Then the grow your own revolution began. Grow equipment, fancy grow foods and hydroponic shops. Pot magazines and head shops. Seeds on the Internet and thousands of new strains and hybrids to choose from. People growing pot in their closets and spare rooms. Then another revolution unfolds finally; selling weed on the Internet through Silk Road. - Buy the seeds on the Internet, buy the equipment, setup the grow room, then get the Silk Road vendor account , harvest the crop and package and sell it on the road. Perpetual cycle of harvest after harvest and selling it on the Internet. The days of cannabis cartels are over. Even gangs can't control the weed market. Everyone is growing and selling it now. It's value remains consistent due to the cost of electricity and growing supplies. The costs of growing expenses remains a significant factor. Outdoor weed never fetched the same high prices as indoor weed. Outdoor weed is cheaper to grow, but it's more vulnerable to theft and cops and also the elements of outdoors makes for poorer quality weed that sells for less.Weed now comes from your own neighborhood. It's grown there, sold there. Some weed travels around, but generally lots of its now local. Crystal meth was once a regional /local product that was made and sold nearby also. Now due to the scarcity of the ingredients, it's mainly manufactured in Mexico where pseudophedrine and ephedra are still available and cheap. The finished product now comes north while weed goes south . Neat. With Silk Road, people's weed grown all over is being shipped and sold around the world now!! Think about it. . . The local neighborhood grown weed is now shipped around the world on the Road. North America may be an international supplier of quality weed now. If you look in most countries were weed naturally comes from, their weed is crap. Wild weed is crap compared to domesticated hybrids . North America's hunger for better and better weed led to the great strains and quality we see today. Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix would have been kept busy in their old age.