"We beat the foreign competition coming from Central and South America!"
We don't make cocaine here.
I don't know about that. There were no comparisons between countries that I saw. Maybe the "10-fold increase in U.S. marijuana production" mentioned in the article is the result of Mexican growers cultivating their crops in our national parks.
I wonder how this survery was conducted? Do they have a list of known growers/distributors/dealers to contact?
He calculated the producer price per pound of marijuana at $1,606 based on national survey data showing retail prices of between $2,400 and $3,000 between 2001 and 2005.