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  title info:
    title: Reducing drug trafficking revenues and violence in Mexico
    sub title: would legalizing marijuana in California help?
  name:
    name part: Kilmer, Beau.
  name:
    name part: Rand Corporation
  name:
    name part: Drug Policy Research Center (U.S.)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: pcc
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 57 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: 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, et al., 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.
  table of 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.
  note: Beau Kilmer [and others].
  note: Also available through the World Wide Web.
  note: Includes bibliographical references: pages 47-57.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ca
  subject:
    topic: Marijuana
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: California
  subject:
    topic: Drug legalization
    geographic: California
  subject:
    topic: Drug traffic
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: Prevention
  subject:
    topic: Drug traffic
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: Finance
  subject:
    topic: Violent crimes
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: Prevention
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Occasional paper (Rand Corporation) ; OP-325
  identifier: 0833051075
  identifier: 9780833051073
  identifier: http://rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2010/RAND_OP325.pdf
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    record content source: CAX
    record creation date: 101105
    record change date: 20151202112113.0
    record identifier: in00002638153