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The ONDCP recently reported that Mexican drug trafficking organizations make about $13.8 billion a year selling drugs to Americans, close to $8.6 billion from marijuana alone.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2008-02-21-2221217072_x.htm

http://pushingback.com/blogs/pushing_back/archive/2008/02/25/40553.aspx

[Ken H]

Mexico produced 7,400 metric tons, while the United States cultivated 4,700 metric tons..... Paraguay ( 5,900 metric tons)

ONDCP estimated the annual mj consumption in the US to be just over a thousand metric tons. It seems to me that either consumption estimates are way too low, or production figures are way too high, or there is a massive glut.

--briancbennett.com/charts/fed-data/consumption.htm