1) Quality U.S.-grown pot has pushed foreign cartels out of medical marijuana strongholds like the Bay Area. They now deal it to places with the toughest prohibition. Dean Freedman, of the Heart Washington Bureau discovers this four-month old news for the Hearst Washington Bureau and gets something wrong: RAND found no evidence of significant Mexican cartel growing in the National Forest, mostly because the illiterate peasants cops nab have no idea who they are growing for.