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The flow of Mexican heroin into the CBAG region will very likely increase in the near term. Reduced opium poppy eradication efforts and increased heroin production in Mexico will allow Mexican DTOs to smuggle increasing amounts of heroin into the region to supply Mexican heroin markets in the region and throughout the United States.
Despite enhanced methamphetamine precursor chemical control restrictions and law enforcement efforts in Mexico as well as increased methamphetamine seizures at the U.S.-Mexico border in California, Mexican DTOs will continue to supply sufficient quantities of methamphetamine to meet demand in the CBAG region and to distribute to other markets, albeit at higher prices.
Indoor cannabis cultivation operations in the CBAG region will quite likely increase as marijuana producers attempt to meet the rising demand for higher-potency marijuana and to capitalize on the profit potential of high-potency marijuana distribution in drug markets throughout the United States.
Drug-related violence in U.S. communities along the U.S.-Mexico border in California will most likely persist as drug-related violence in Mexico continues. Additionally, Mexican DTOs may increasingly retaliate against USBP officers who direct counterdrug and border security measures against them.
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