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Book Title: Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico

Book Subtitle: Would Legalizing Marijuana in California Help?
Book Author(s): Beau Kilmer, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Brittany M. Bond and Peter H.
Reuter
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2.1. UN and U.S. Estimates of Net Coca Cultivation (Hectares) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

4.1. Proportion of Past-Month Marijuana Users in the Lower 48 States for Whom
Potency-Adjusted Marijuana Prices Would Fall by a Given Amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.2. Proportion of Past-Month Marijuana Users in the Lower 48 States for Whom
Potency-Adjusted Marijuana Prices Would Fall by a Given Amount, Relative to
Current Mexican-Marijuana Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.3. Proportion of Current Mexican-Marijuana Sales That Would Not Be Undercut by
Diverted California Sinsemilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Figure B.1: Median Tetrahydrocannabinol Levels Are 50 Percent Lower in Marijuana
Seizures Made at the Mexico-California Border Than in Other Seizures in California...4!
Figure C.1: Proportion of Marijuana Purchases Described in Grams and More Than
10 Grams, with Price That Suggests That the Purchase Was of Commercial-Grade
Marijuana....................................................................................................................12!
Figure C.2: Proportion of Marijuana Purchases Described in Ounces for Which Price
Suggests That the Purchase Was of Commercial-Grade Marijuana..............................13!
Figure C.3: Proportion of 5- to 10-Gram Marijuana Purchases for Which Price Suggests
That the Purchase Was of Commercial-Grade Marijuana............................................14!
Figure C.4: Proportion of 1- to 5-Gram Marijuana Purchases for Which Price Suggests That
the Purchase Was of Commercial-Grade Marijuana ....................................................14!
Figure C.5: Wholesale Price of Mexican Marijuana Reported by National Drug Intelligence
Center Versus Price of Commercial-Grade Marijuana Reported by Narcotic News ......21!
Figure C.6: Price ($/pound) of Mexican and Commercial-Grade Marijuana.......................22!
Figure C.7: Higher Wholesale Prices of Commercial-Grade Marijuana...............................23!
Figure D.1: Trends in the Number of People Admitted to Treatment for Whom a Drug
Was Reported at the Time of Admission .....................................................................30!
Figure D.2: Number and Distribution of Heroin Signature Observations, by Source and
State ............................................................................................................................42!
Figure D.3: Treatment Episode Data Set Heroin Treatment Admissions, by State..............44!

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