Marijuana Accounts for Vast Majority of Drug Seizures on Mexican Border The Huffington Post
go to original June 23, 2013

The War on Drugs is clearly a war on weed.

Marijuana accounted for 99.5 percent of Border Patrol drug seizures by weight at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2011, according to an analysis by Center for Investigative Reporting in California, which compiled the information into to an interactive map on its website.

It’s a pretty skewed figure. The Border Patrol seized at least 1.9 million pounds of marijuana on the U.S.-Mexico border in 2011. Second place goes to cocaine, with just 7,461 pounds seized. We tried to visualize it for you in a pie graph, but all the other drugs came out too small to read. We did this instead:



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