Mexico and the United States have an antinarcotics arrangement. Each side contributes funds to this effort, the United States close to $500 million a year under the Mérida Initiative (the institution that defines the arrangement) and Mexico around $4.3 billion a year.

I am working on a project dealing with U.S.-Mexico narcotics traffic and this has given me new cause to think more about the subject. The report that I am preparing deals primarily with four drugs that are now illegal to produce, sell, and use in the United States—cocaine, heroin, ...

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