Distribution just isn’t worth it, to me, and I would think the state would go after you even harder now that you’re taking away their tax income.
I don’t know what it’s like in your state but in my state there isn’t any really penalty for going over the plant count, other than them taking and destroying the plants, unless you are way over the count and they can prove you are distributing. Usually when I hear about an illegal grow op being busted here there are over 100 plants. Just before Christmas there was a house fire and they found a grow room on the top floor where the fire was with over 150 plants, along with some other drugs, including fentanyl. Those people are going to be in a lot of shit, but I have no sympathy for anyone distributing fentanyl.