there are still people getting mexican commercial in the midwest from what i've heard. with all of the indoor action these days, i bet it doesn't make it far across the border. i haven't seen any since the mid 90s.
I bet increased border scrutiny after 9/11 has reduced the volumes somewhat, but the Mexican drug cartels are definitely still growing it, and at least some of it has to be making it up North. See this interesting article from just a few months ago:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/07/are-we-sure-mexicos-largest-marijuana-farm/40015/
According to the article, Mexico is still the world's largest producer of commercial marijuana, and they're still growing it by the ton.
I'm curious if the commercial Mexican stuff from the mid/late 1990s is qualitatively different than that grown there today.
I've heard that the Mexican growers have incorporated
indica genetics into their formerly pure sativa strains to get earlier harvests, but I can't personally say whether this is true or not, or if so, when they did it. If it is true, then current commercial seeds would probably be quite a bit less interesting than older ones.
I ask because one of my old pals tells me he's recently found a stash of older bag seeds from around '97-98, almost certainly Mexican, and they're still viable.
Any value to those?