Global Drug Policy Program Grants

Cooperative Mexico–U.S. Antinarcotics Program

The center has sought funding to bring together experts in U.S.–Mexico relations as well as domestic policy in both the United States and Mexico to examine:

• The illicit flow of arms, drugs, and money between the United States, Mexico, and other neighboring countries
• The status of the Merida Initiative, and the manifestations of this policy in Mexico
• The domestic market for narcotics in the United States and Mexico
• The structure and operations of Mexican cartels and the spillover of activity into Central America
• Corruption in Mexico and the increasing use of the Mexican military to mitigate cartel activity
• The feasibility of legalization of certain narcotics in the United States and the outcome of decriminalization in Mexico
• The economic and social costs of narcotics criminalization in the United States

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