The Drug War and the U.S.-Mexico Border: The State of Affairs

Payan, Tony

doi:10.1215/00382876-2006-006

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“…Willis (2008) characterizes the Australian cannabis cultivation market as one with a low detection risk, vast possibilities for profit, and a high turnover of growers. In the United States, the profitability of the market has attracted Mexican drug-trafficking organizations (Payan, 2006). In California, Mexican drug-trafficking organizations operate in remote sites, which are hard to control for law enforcement officials (Mallery, 2011).…”

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Two Plants Are Better Than One?

Reith

2015

Contemporary Drug Problems

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Cannabis cultivation is a thriving business, whether for profit or personal use. The reasons for engaging in illegal drug growing and the effects of drug policy on it are mostly unexplored. This paper tries to shed some light on the impact of cannabis policy on this phenomenon through two models that predict first, the kilograms of marijuana herbs seized as an outcome variable and second, the number of cannabis plants eradicated. We found a significant policy effect on the number of cannabis plants eradicated while controlling for favorable outdoor (temperature) and indoor (electricity consumption) growing conditions, exports, land area, the rural population, corruption, and neighboring countries that have previously decriminalized cannabis. However, the effect on the amount of marijuana herbs seized was merely weakly significant and only in a reduced sample of developed countries.

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Two Plants Are Better Than One?

Reith

2015

Contemporary Drug Problems

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“…In the US mainstream media, Latin America merits attention primarily when it causes trouble for the US. The majority of news is related to drugs, gangs and illegal immigration (Fukuyama, 2007), and coverage of conflicts surrounding the drug trade is largely scandal-driven and sensationalized, feeding into common misunderstandings (Payan, 2006). Specifically, the media often labels all people involved in drug tracking as evil, oversimplifying a complex socio-economic issue and ignoring that traffickers are often motivated to escape economic hardship, not by a desire to inflict violence on others (Montiel, 2009).…”

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The war next door: Peace journalism in US local and distant newspapers’ coverage of Mexico

Lacasse

Förster

2012

Media, War & Conflict

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This study explores the relationship between proximity to a conflict and the tendency to use peace journalism rather than war journalism modes of reporting. In the context of the current drug war occurring in Mexico, articles from both local, border region US newspapers and distant US newspapers were coded according to their usage of war or peace journalism frames. Analyses revealed that local newspapers utilized more peace journalism frames overall, and presented a less pessimistic and negative view of the conflict and parties. Distant newspapers, however, were more likely to showcase complexity of the conflict and many parties and people involved.

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Drugs, Crime, and Aggravated Felony Deportations: Moral Panic Theory and the Legal Construction of the “Criminal Alien”

Tosh

2019

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The Drug War and the U.S.-Mexico Border: The State of Affairs

Cited by 20 publications

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Two Plants Are Better Than One?

Two Plants Are Better Than One?

The war next door: Peace journalism in US local and distant newspapers’ coverage of Mexico

Drugs, Crime, and Aggravated Felony Deportations: Moral Panic Theory and the Legal Construction of the “Criminal Alien”

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