Drug profits in the United States

Posted on April 28, 2008
Filed Under United States, global drug trade |

In the National Drug Threat Assessment 2007, the report states that Mexican and Colombia Drug Trafficking Organizations “together generate, remove, and launder between $8.3 billion and $24.9 billion in wholesale distribution proceeds from Mexico-produced marijuana, methamphetamine, and heroin and South American cocaine and heroin annually.”

On the Northern border, “an estimated $5.2 billion to $21.2 billion is generated through the wholesale distribution of marijuana and MDMA” by Canadian Drug TraffickingOrganizations.

Source: National Drug Intelligence Center, “Drug Money Laundering”, National Drug Threat Assessment 2007, October 2006.(accessed: February 21, 2007).

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