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Spekkio said:
Then your Google fu is lacking.

I'll give you a free one - MJ accounts for over 60% of cartel revenue.

We don't grow it domestically.
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From your link...

Past estimates (Pre-legalization)
Before widespread U.S. cannabis legalization, marijuana was considered a major source of income for Mexican drug trafficking organizations.
  • Early 2000s: A 2006 estimate by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy suggested that Mexican cartels generated over 60% of their revenue from U.S. marijuana sales.
  • Early 2010s: Later studies provided more conservative estimates.
    • A 2010 RAND Corporation study estimated that marijuana accounted for about 16% of cartel revenue.
    • A 2012 study from the Mexican Institute of Competitiveness and RAND estimated marijuana's share of drug export revenues to be between 20% and 30%.
Recent shift (Post-legalization)
Since 2015, the rise of the legal cannabis industry in the U.S. has caused a dramatic drop in the quality and profitability of cartel-produced marijuana.
  • Cartel adaptation: Drug cartels have shifted their focus to other, more profitable narcotics, such as fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine, to compensate for lost marijuana revenue.
  • Declining seizures: The amount of cannabis seized at the U.S.-Mexico border has fallen substantially. Cannabis seizures dropped by 21% between 2013 and 2014, the first year of recreational sales, and continued to decline over the following years.
  • Falling prices: The profitability of illegally trafficked Mexican marijuana has been diminished by competition from higher-quality legal and black-market U.S. cannabis.
Current status
Today, the percentage of overall cartel revenue derived from marijuana is likely very low, though difficult to quantify precisely. Extortion, kidnapping, sex trafficking, and other illicit goods, along with deadlier drugs, now provide a larger share of the cartels' income.
 
You should know better than to trust the AI answer. It's crowd sourcing clueless social media posts.

Marijuana was the second most comfiscated drug by weight from cartels in 2024.

Marijuana is still illegal to grow domestically and the DEA has aggressively enforced this.

It's true that Marijuana activity is decreasing in lieu of a much more lucrative drug called Fentanyl, but Marijuana remains a significant part of their business.

Virtually 100% of legally sold MJ in the US comes from an illicit supplier.
 
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Spekkio said:
However, drug deaths fell rapidly from the 1980s to mid 2000s. Once we declared it a waste of time / intrusive on people's rights in the mid 00s, drug ODs and demand has steadily risen.

As a card-carrying marijuana waiver holder, there were two drugs drilled into me to never try or your life is over: Crack and heroine. I had a NYC cop come to my school in 4th grade to show us what drugs looked like and some pictures of bloods with Glasgow smiles (and their daughters because you have to slit a random victim to get in).

My kids have no drug education at all beyond what we've talked about with them. It's no wonder people believe the internet hype that you can shoot some smack on a Saturday on occasion like it's an ice cream Sunday or something and not build dependency (or die).
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Yet those DARE programs, just like other abstinence programs, did not work.



In fact, your statements about drug deaths going down in the 1980s and 1990s is false. Deaths per 100,000 people doubled during that time period.

 
Spekkio said:
You should know better than to trust the AI answer. It's crowd sourcing clueless social media posts.

Marijuana was the second most comfiscated drug by weight from cartels in 2024.

Marijuana is still illegal to grow domestically and the DEA has aggressively enforced this.

It's true that Marijuana activity is decreasing in lieu of a much more lucrative drug called Fentanyl, but Marijuana remains a significant part of their business.

Virtually 100% of legally sold MJ in the US comes from an illicit supplier.
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Well, if you're comparing hay bales to pills, the fact that pills are greater by weight than hay bales tells you something.

Sketchy source...

In 2009, the 3.3 million pounds of cannabis seized...By 2020, illicit cannabis seizures dropped to 600,000 pounds

Arrests...
Of the 61,678 cases reported to the Commission in fiscal year 2024, 18,150 involved drugs. Of those, 18,029 cases involved drug trafficking; 2.6% of such cases involved marijuana (down 57.9% since fiscal year 2020).
 
Spekkio said:
there were two drugs drilled into me to never try or your life is over: Crack and heroine. I had a NYC cop come to my school in 4th grade to show us what drugs looked like and some pictures of bloods with Glasgow smiles (and their daughters because you have to slit a random victim to get in).
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Pretty sure that cop was just making shit up...Also better to do crack with a heroine, not just some rando.
 
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