{"id":53905,"date":"2021-08-12T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/weed-from-the-us-is-dominating-the-supply-in-mexico-for-the-first-time-in-history\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:42:00","slug":"weed-from-the-us-is-dominating-the-supply-in-mexico-for-the-first-time-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/weed-from-the-us-is-dominating-the-supply-in-mexico-for-the-first-time-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"For the First Time in History, the US Is Flooding Mexico with Shit-Tons of Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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State-level cannabis legalization in the US is drastically impacting the weed market in Mexico. In fact, an article by Kevin Sieff, the Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s Mexico and Central America bureau chief, reports that a ton of American cannabis is regularly trafficked across the border into Mexico now. This marks a major role reversal in the international unlicensed marijuana trade, considering Mexico has historically supplied the US with weed for decades<\/em>. <\/p>\n

It’s likely that the majority of the American cannabis products in Mexico are predominantly unregulated, and thus, untraceable by the legal industry’s track-and-trace system. A DEA report issued this past March revealed that weed seizures at the US-Mexico border (heading into<\/em> the US) have dropped by a whopping 80 percent since 2013<\/u><\/a>. And yet, more American weed is being sold and consumed in Mexico than ever before.<\/p>\n

Mexico\u2019s government isn\u2019t stoked about this. They released a report stating that unlicensed cannabis products \u2014 including 5,000 containers of cannabis gummies<\/u><\/a> discovered by Mexican customs in November, which were en route from Arizona \u2014 are flooding the country.<\/p>\n