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Book/Printed Material Reducing drug trafficking revenues and violence in Mexico : would legalizing marijuana in California help?

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  • Reducing drug trafficking revenues and violence in Mexico : would legalizing marijuana in California help?

Summary

  • U.S. demand for illicit drugs creates markets for Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs). This paper examines how marijuana legalization in California might influence DTO revenues and the violence in Mexico, focusing on gross revenues from export and distribution to wholesale markets near the southwestern U.S. border. The analysis described here is rooted in an earlier RAND Corporation study on marijuana legalization (Kilmer, Caulkins, Pacula, and others, 2010) and presents a method of estimating the revenues that international drug traffickers derive from U.S. sales that is transparent and, hence, auditable and replicable. We believe that this method can be iteratively improved by research over time, whereas existing methods that rely heavily on classified information have not been subject to review and have not shown much ongoing improvement. Five technical appendixes include additional information about the weight of a marijuana joint, THC content of sinsemilla and commercial-grade marijuana, marijuana prices, Mexican DTO revenues from drugs other than marijuana, and the availability of Mexican marijuana in the U.S.

Names

  • Kilmer, Beau
  • Drug Policy Research Center (U.S.)
  • Rand Corporation

Created / Published

  • Santa Monica, CA : RAND International Programs and Drug Policy Research Center, [2010]
  • ©2010

Contents

  • Introduction -- Methods for estimating drug-trafficking organizations' drug revenues -- U.S. marijuana consumption and Mexican drug-trafficking organizations' revenues from exporting Marijuana -- How might legalization in California affect Mexican drug-trafficking organizations' marijuana export revenues? -- Beyond marijuana exports : insights about additional sources of Mexican drug- trafficking organizations' drug revenue -- How could a reduction in marijuana revenues influence Mexican drug-trafficking organizations? -- Conclusion.

Headings

  • -  Drug legalization--California
  • -  Drug traffic--Mexico--Finance
  • -  Drug traffic--Mexico--Prevention
  • -  Marijuana--Law and legislation--California
  • -  Violent crimes--Mexico--Prevention

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-57).
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xiv, 57 pages )

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  • KFC632

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  • 2021760847

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Chicago citation style:

Kilmer, Beau, U.S Drug Policy Research Center, and Rand Corporation. Reducing drug trafficking revenues and violence in Mexico: would legalizing marijuana in California help?. [Santa Monica, CA: RAND International Programs and Drug Policy Research Center, ©, 2010] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021760847/.

APA citation style:

Kilmer, B., Drug Policy Research Center, U. S. & Rand Corporation. (2010) Reducing drug trafficking revenues and violence in Mexico: would legalizing marijuana in California help?. [Santa Monica, CA: RAND International Programs and Drug Policy Research Center, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021760847/.

MLA citation style:

Kilmer, Beau, U.S Drug Policy Research Center, and Rand Corporation. Reducing drug trafficking revenues and violence in Mexico: would legalizing marijuana in California help?. [Santa Monica, CA: RAND International Programs and Drug Policy Research Center, ©, 2010] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021760847/>.