My impression is the drug business is very dynamic - it's constantly fluid and changing. When police crackdowns, other gangs, other kinds of drugs like fentanyl affect one area, something new pops up in another area. Makes sense to me that it starts in a new area precisely because no one will notice it, at least for a while.Not sure why the LA Times would go to a professor in Colorado to get an opinion
The idea that a professor would be in touch with this constant flux seems absurd.
JMO