One of the rules for legal pot is that it can’t be exported out of state. That’s one of the rules of the Non-Enforcement Agreement with the Feds. To accomplish that the states have implemented seed-to-sale systems to prove that every gram grown in the state, ends up being sold in the state. Or destroyed.
Oregon has an interesting situation: It currently produces enough cannabis to supply Colorado, Washington, Alaska, and itself, and still have more to sell. It produces ten times what it’s population can possibly consume.
One approach is that the state regulators won’t care about a retail shop in Ashland moving tons of weed to a citizen from California, as long as the inventory database balances and the taxes are collected. Or a store in Pendleton that has a lot of Idaho and Montana plates in the parking lot, the front lot; behind the store are semis from California and Arizona.
Oregon has available to it another approach; The role of Distributor was included in it’s legalization law. A wholesaler. This is their own invention the marijuana experiments and it will be fun to see what the wholesalers actually do.
Oregon’s problem is to somehow handle the huge quantities it currently produces while remaining in compliance with the federal non-enforcement agreement.