Expansion of legal cannabis markets in the U.S. has fundamentally disrupted demand for illegal cannabis imports. Overall, the amount of cannabis intercepted along all U.S. borders fell 89% from 2011 to 2019.  Along the southwestern border, where 99% of all intercepted cannabis has been collected, those incidents have decreased by 90% since 2011 Why? 

• Consumers are increasingly transitioning to legal markets
• As legal product options improve, consumer incentives evaporate for the purchase or jeopardy of low-quality cannabis.
• The vaping crisis underscored risks about unregulated products.

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The DEA admits – buried within a 190-page submission to Congress – that state-level cannabis legalization reduces illegal market demand.

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