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| | DEA Briefs & Background, Drugs and Drug Abuse, State Factsheets, Kentucky |
 | | Though Kentucky is the site of large-scale marijuana cultivation, most of the marijuana produced in the state is exported to markets in other states, including Illinois, Ohio, New York, California, Texas, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. Methamphetamine is a dramatically increasing threat throughout Kentucky. |
| | Though methamphetamine manufacturing activity in Kentucky consists mostly of small, unsophisticated clandestine laboratories producing limited amounts of methamphetamine, this activity is expected to expand rapidly in the near future in terms of both the number of labs and their size/sophistication. |
| | Kentucky methamphetamine production is a simple process taught among violators and dominated by Caucasians in the lower social and economic classes, including former marijuana cultivators, who are beginning to realize the greater profit margin and diminished threat from law enforcement posed by methamphetamine production versus marijuana cultivation. |
| www.dea.gov /pubs/states/kentucky.html (1594 words) |
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