100 Tons of Pot Seized
There is so much of it it takes up a whole hanger. 200,000 pounds of pot seized just before the drug cartels could get it across the border. So for those out there that think that things are getting better by decriminalizing the drugs and making pot medicinal- yeah right. They are cutting off heads down there over this stuff.
From Reuters here:
Narcotics wrapped in 10,000 brown and silver packages are on display in the patio of the Morelos military base in Tijuana October 18, 2010. Mexican soldiers seized 105 tonnes of marijuana with a U.S. street value of more than $340 million on Monday in Mexico’s biggest-ever pot haul, the army said. Heavily armed soldiers raided a series of homes in a poor suburb of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California, and came under fire at least once as they took the drugs.
The drug cartels weren’t going to use giant slingshots to drop 100 tons of pot into the US. They were confident they would get most or all of it across our borders. Once there it would be purchased, if you listen to the legalization crowd tell it, by people in pain that no other drug can treat. Or, as reality would clearly portend, there are a lot of stoners who don’t care that their drug is contributing to the deaths of hundreds of police, judges and soldiers on both sides of our border.
Ummmm just curious, weren’t there a lot of people killed over alcohol during prohibition? Beyond that, if people start growing more pot over here, doesn’t that reduce the demand for it to come from there? Seems like legalizing it is the way to make more grown here… just an idea.
There are lots of things people are willing to kill for. You don’t legalize it out of fear someone might kill you.
And the idea that the cartels are just going to go on unemployment when someone intrudes into their market is a fantasy.
Not expecting them to go onto unemployment, just saying that over time things might change. During prohibition, the production of alcohol largely helped out the mafia and other criminal organizations. Yet, generally speaking, it isn’t such organizations that produce it anymore. At some point in time we have to consider does this failing war on drugs make sense anymore when it puts more resources into the hands of those that we really don’t want to have it.
I say legalize it… Grow it cheap and Tax the hell out of it and chuck anyone in jail caught DUI with it like Alcohol. That way the liberals can toke us out of debt!!!
We need to quit pretending we can have a service oriented country and start producing some consumables!
And I forgot to add… We still sieze it at the border… and sell that too! Shouldn’t let any of it go to waste!!!
:Agrees with Robb… which scares him a bit:
…that’s up there on the creepy scale for sure…
We can’t make the federal government a national Pot dealer. Black people have it bad enough being pushed onto welfare- gonna make them get their herb from Uncle Sam?
Why can’t it be grown like tobacco?
Because its a dangerous schedule 1 Narcotic. Tobacco isn’t even regulated by the FDA, and its not recognized as a drug.
Tobacco doesn’t make you hallucinate and it is becoming more widely banned in California than marijuana.
You don’t hear about anyone home growing tobacco.
Lazy stoners are not the cause of mass violence on the Mexico/U.S. border. Decades of bad policy are what’s killing people. Claiming it’s the end user is a silly claim
Cryptojournalist, welcome to the blog! Agreed policies play a big part. But the demand for all of this pot doesn’t come from cancer patients looking for medical marijuana. The demand is from stoners, lazy and otherwise. And they don’t care, and I don’t think its silly to say they contribute to the deaths on the border from the drug wars.
Just curious, do you feel the same way about diamonds? I would be willing to be that just as many people have been killed for diamonds as pot… if not a lot lot lot more.
I’d be interested in seeing your research on that one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_diamond knowing how many people are killed in those “civil wars” the diamond trade probably causes quite a few more deaths then neccessary.