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Abstract
This article compiles several sources of drug data to provide an analysis of supply and demand
factor influencing the drug trade, including potential effects to agricultural production. All
effects were found to be contemporaneously independent with the exception of coca production
causing arrests in the U.S. Significant lagged effects were found linking agricultural production
and coca production. Seizures and arrests were found to have a lagged deterrent effect on coca
production. Seizures and arrests had lagged effects in explaining the variance of each other. It is
likely that arrests increase intelligence information, resulting in more seizures and eventually
more arrests.