Editing MDMA (section)

====North America====
The [[United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime]] stated in its 2014 World Drug Report that US ecstasy retail prices range from US$1 to $70 per pill, or from $15,000 to $32,000 per kilogram.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ecstasy-type substances Retail and wholesale prices* and purity levels, by drug, region and country or territory|url=http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr2014/Statistics/Prices_ATS.xls|publisher=United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime|access-date=2 January 2015|archive-date=8 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208142205/http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr2014/Statistics/Prices_ATS.xls}}</ref> A new research area named Drug Intelligence aims to automatically monitor distribution networks based on image processing and machine learning techniques, in which an Ecstasy pill picture is analyzed to detect correlations among different production batches.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Camargo J, Esseiva P, González F, Wist J, Patiny L | title = Monitoring of illicit pill distribution networks using an image collection exploration framework | journal = Forensic Science International | volume = 223 | issue = 1–3 | pages = 298–305 | date = November 2012 | pmid = 23107059 | doi = 10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.10.004 | url = http://www.fsijournal.org/article/S0379-0738(12)00458-6/abstract | access-date = 9 December 2013 | archive-date = 28 August 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210828153543/http://www.allmallorcahotels.com/fsijournalorg/ | url-status = live }}</ref> These novel techniques allow police scientists to facilitate the monitoring of illicit distribution networks.

{{As of|October 2015}}, most of the MDMA in the United States is produced in British Columbia, Canada and imported by Canada-based Asian [[transnational organized crime|transnational criminal organizations]].<ref name="DEA 2015 assessment">{{cite book | title=2015 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary | chapter-url=http://www.dea.gov/docs/2015%20NDTA%20Report.pdf | publisher=United States Department of Justice: Drug Enforcement Administration | access-date=10 April 2016 | chapter=MDMA (3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine) | pages=85–88 | date=October 2015 | archive-date=10 April 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410100038/http://www.dea.gov/docs/2015%20NDTA%20Report.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref> The market for MDMA in the United States is relatively small compared to [[methamphetamine]], [[cocaine]], and [[heroin]].<ref name="DEA 2015 assessment" /> In the United States, about 0.9 million people used ecstasy in 2010.<ref name=Drugs2014/>