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Nevada High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Drug Market Analysis
June 2007

Outlook

The trafficking and abuse of ice methamphetamine will remain the primary drug threat in the Nevada HIDTA region. Demand for the drug is strong, and Mexican DTOs are poised to meet that demand. Further, high methamphetamine abuse levels in the area will quite likely contribute to an escalation in drug-related criminal acts.

Mexican DTOs will continue to exploit the HIDTA region's growing Hispanic population, location near the Southwest Border, and transportation infrastructure to expand their wholesale distribution of ice methamphetamine, cocaine, commercial-grade marijuana, and heroin in and around the Nevada HIDTA region.

As the demand for high-potency marijuana increases within the Nevada HIDTA region, other criminal groups and DTOs, particularly Asian organizations, may begin to establish indoor cannabis grow operations similar to those that Asian DTOs established in northern and central California.

The region's gaming and entertainment industries attract some visitors to the region who are vulnerable to drug abuse. As such, drug abuse by transients together with the traffickers who fuel it will remain a considerable problem for law enforcement and public health officials. This problem will be compounded by traffickers who seek to mask the origin of their drug proceeds by exploiting casinos.


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