Too High to Fail by Doug Fine

Author:Doug Fine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group, USA
Published: 2012-06-26T04:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

How a Plastic Zip Tie Undergoes a 50,000 Percent Markup and Becomes an Insurance Policy

The amount of marijuana available for distribution in the United States is unknown; an accurate estimate regarding the amount of marijuana available in the United States is not feasible. Despite record-setting eradication efforts in the United States, the availability of marijuana remains relatively high, with limited disruption in supply or price.

—U.S. Department of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center’s 2009 “Domestic Cannabis Cultivation Assessment”

It’s a slippery slope. If it’s not careful, the United States could end up helping the bad guys more than hurting them.

—Morris Panner, former assistant United States attorney, in the January 9, 2012, New York Times, commenting on a report that U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents have, over several years, laundered millions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels into banks including a Dallas Bank of America branch, in efforts to reach criminal leaders

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