I think it's important to remember that those Thai, Mexican & Colombian growers had to increase production enormously for us to even see much of their product here at all. It's a huge cash crop in the traditional hash producing regions of the world, as well. It's always been about money at some level or another, about the price of scarcity. It pays a lot better than growing corn.
I'm no world traveler, but I think a lot of traditional strains are still out there in small plots all over the world, spared in the WoD. It's just that the organizations putting it all together to mass produce it & deliver it to market are defunct or switched to another product, like cocaine in Colombia or heroin in Afghanistan. It's just hard to find the stuff at any distance from its origins in remote hamlets & villages. It's no longer grown for mass marketing, at all.
OTOH, like farmers everywhere, those who do so commercially were eager to adopt higher yielding shorter flowering strains, particularly when the threat from choppers is real. I have no idea what the price of wholesale cannabis is in Mexico, for example, but price differentials obviously aren't sufficient to bring some of the old strains back into commercial production, or they would be.
whats BCO?
