Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution by Doug Fine

Author:Doug Fine [Fine, Doug]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Business & Economics, Industries, Agribusiness
ISBN: 9781101588895
Publisher: Gotham
Published: 2012-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

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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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