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By the time "B.C. Bud" -- a particularly potent form of marijuana from Canada -- reaches Chicago and other big cities, it can fetch $4,000 a pound.
Shipping weed into the United States is big business north of the border -- and getting bigger, authorities say.
While most pot still comes from Mexico, sources familiar with British Columbia's marijuana trade estimate that 30,000 to 80,000 pounds of pot a month is smuggled into the United States, mostly by truck and aircraft.
The production of marijuana and its economic spinoffs have made it British Columbia's third largest industry behind tourism and logging, said criminologist Rob Gordon of Simon Fraser University.
"It's a major component of our gross provincial product," he said.
Authorities are trying to stem the tide.
Just this month, federal and state authorities in Plattsburgh, N.Y., announced the dismantling of an alleged billion-dollar marijuana smuggling ring that used St. Regis/Akwesasne Mohawk Indian reservation land as a transit route into the United States.
Canada also has developed rapidly into a leading supplier of ecstasy, often laced with methamphetamine.
The National Drug Intelligence Center estimates that Canada-based gangs generate between $33 billion and $56 billion annually from drug sales in the United States.
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Shipping weed into the United States is big business north of the border -- and getting bigger, authorities say.
While most pot still comes from Mexico, sources familiar with British Columbia's marijuana trade estimate that 30,000 to 80,000 pounds of pot a month is smuggled into the United States, mostly by truck and aircraft.
The production of marijuana and its economic spinoffs have made it British Columbia's third largest industry behind tourism and logging, said criminologist Rob Gordon of Simon Fraser University.
"It's a major component of our gross provincial product," he said.
Authorities are trying to stem the tide.
Just this month, federal and state authorities in Plattsburgh, N.Y., announced the dismantling of an alleged billion-dollar marijuana smuggling ring that used St. Regis/Akwesasne Mohawk Indian reservation land as a transit route into the United States.
Canada also has developed rapidly into a leading supplier of ecstasy, often laced with methamphetamine.
The National Drug Intelligence Center estimates that Canada-based gangs generate between $33 billion and $56 billion annually from drug sales in the United States.
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