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From a growers site (they speak the truth / reality I would imagine ??) contradicting the DEA party line (where the above info I am sure comes from)

Pot smugglers use B.C. as export hub

Billion-dollar industry: U.S. gangs net big profits from sales of 'B.C. Bud'
From The National Post
http://nationalpost.com
Jim Bronskill, Southam News
(MarijuanaNews note: The article also appeared in The Vancouver Sun http://vancouversun.com , and probably in a number of other Southam papers, which include some of the best in Canada.)

OTTAWA - Several U.S. marijuana-trafficking syndicates are smuggling high-quality British Columbia pot into the United States, where its potency draws a much higher price than domestic or Mexican marijuana, a new intelligence report reveals.
(MarijuanaNews note: "A new DEA report claims…" would be a better way of putting it.)

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) report says cannabis cultivation in British Columbia has become a billion-dollar industry that will encourage expansion of the marijuana trade in North America.

B.C. Bud -- as it is popularly known -- sells for up to US$4,400 per kilogram in Vancouver, as much as US$6,600 in the state of Washington and US$13,200 in California. In New York City, Canadian marijuana has sold for up to US$17,600 per kg.
(MarijuanaNews note: A kilo is 2.2 pounds. Notice the repeated use of "up to." The highest price is usually not typical. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police DRUG SITUATION in CANADA (1999)
See
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/html/drugs....htm#Marihuana
"the wholesale price of a kilo of [Canadian] marihuana ranges around $6,000 or $8,000 US."

I was told recently that the price of Canadian marijuana in Washington, DC, has fallen to less than US$2,500 per pound, to around US$5,000 per kilo. Perhaps the DEA is paying too much. Government agencies are so wasteful!)

http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=444