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Mexican ice methamphetamine trafficking and abuse will continue to pose the most significant drug threats in the Oregon HIDTA. Mexican ice methamphetamine will remain the predominant form of methamphetamine in the region because local producers will not be able to regain the production capability that they had prior to the passage of legislation regulating access to precursor ingredients. Key members of Mexican DTOs are well entrenched in the Hispanic community and have developed a smuggling and distribution network that will enable them to dominate the wholesale transportation and distribution of ice methamphetamine, marijuana, powder cocaine, and heroin in the region.
Local indoor and outdoor cannabis cultivation will increase. Indoor cultivators will most likely continue to produce more high-potency marijuana to meet growing demand, and Asian DTOs, primarily Vietnamese, will continue to move operations from Canada. Remote areas, well suited to outdoor cannabis cultivation, will most likely be increasingly exploited for large, outdoor grow operations.
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