Los Angeles revealed as a vast illegal drug market

Is it not surprizing that we hear about these big pot busts inside big Mcmansions in the outer exurbs of LA and the IE? There have been qiute a few recenty in areas such as city of industry diamond bar, hacienda hts, SGab valley, walnut, rowland hts, as well as out in the IE. Not to mention big busts of pot farms in the local mts.

Is greater LA basin becoming a third world corrupt region like Mexico/ tijuana , with local/ imported drug cartels, city street drug runners, large- scale marijuana growing operations?. Or is this just a commonplace occurrance for a large mostly third world ghettoized city like LA , which after all is the
focus and world leader of so many illegal imported or home grown criminal syndicate operations, due in large part to a large tractless undocumented population which can conduct its illegal activities using forged/fake /stolen ID docs and identities and easily evade law authorities by slipping in and out of the border.

I further submit the claim that Ca and local city gov'ts have not a clue or simply do not care , and/or are isolated in their cubicles and simply do not have any street knowledge, or may even in a few cases be in on the action.
LA civic leaders have their heads so far up the arse that they cannot see the problem even if it sat on them.

To illustrate, back in the 80's-90's every illegal who came into LA -an estimated 10-15 million- went straight to MacArther park/Alvarado st/pico-union/Westlake district to get fake green cards which instantly gave fabricated right- to- work doc's. All this took place less than a mile from dwtm la so this crap was conduced right under the noses of La City hall