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An Insane Marijuana Plantation in Mexico
Talk about having weed.Talk about growing weed.Talk about anything involving this drug.This giant plantation of marijuana was found south of Tijuana in Mexico.It’s unbelievable but truth be told this plantation contains more marijuana than has even b…
Mexican Army seizes 5 tons of marijuana in beach city near Arizona
Posted by admin in World News on July 30, 2011
Mexico’s Army says five metric tons of marijuana have been seized near the U.S. border in Puerto Penasco, a beach city popular with visitors from Arizona.www.washingtonpost.com
Massive Marijuana Farm Discovered in Mexico
The 300 acres of pot plants were sheltered under black screen-cloth in a huge square on the floor of the Baja California desert, more than 150 miles south of Tijuana.www.dailymail.co.uk
Sign the Petition to President Obama: End the War on Marijua
Posted by admin in Political News on August 10, 2010
Last week, Mexico’s President Calderone called on President Obama to join the debate on legalizing marijuana. The US drug policy has lined the pockets of the drug cartels with billions of dollars, and they are threatening to destabilize not only Mexico…
CA Immigrant Teens Forced to Grow Pot to Pay Off Smugglers
Posted by admin in World News on August 3, 2010
Authorities in Ventura County fear they might have come across a trend: Teenagers from Mexico forced to tend marijuana crops in Southern California as a means of paying of smugglers who brought them into the United States.blogs.laweekly.com
How Legalized Pot Could Hurt Mexico’s Cartels
Posted by admin in World News on July 18, 2010
So far, no modern country has ever legalized marijuana production—not even the Netherlands. Yet with heavy drug-related violence plaguing the U.S.-Mexican border, some analysts and policymakers now say that America should legalize weed in order to re…
WSJ.com – Inside Mexico’s Drug War, Americans Allege Abuse
Posted by admin in Political News on July 17, 2010
Mexico’s military says it caught two Americans with marijuana. The men say soldiers planted the drugs, then tortured them during questioning.online.wsj.com
End Mexico’s Bloody Drug War: Legalize Marijuana
Posted by admin in Political News on July 7, 2010
When substance abuse treatment professionals start calling for the legalization of marijuana, we can be sure that we are mainstreaming our message of cannabis liberation.
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End Mexico’s Bloody Drug War: Legalize Marijuana
When substance abuse treatment professionals start calling for the legalization of marijuana, we can be sure that we are mainstreaming our message of cannabis liberation. \r\nhttp://www.sensiblewashington.org/donate\r\nhttp://www.facebook.com/#!/pa…
US Officials find smuggling tunnel underneath the Rio Grand
Posted by admin in World News on June 27, 2010
The discovery came as authorities were investigating suspicious activity in the city storm drain system and came upon a juvenile from Mexico with 200 pounds of marijuana.www.cnn.com
Mexico’s New Drug Law May Set an Example
Posted by admin in Political News on May 13, 2010
With barely a peep from Washington, Mexico decriminalizes the use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and crystal meth. Where’s the drug war?
Police Captain Says Legalize All Drugs
Posted by admin in Political News on April 30, 2010
I’ve heard some in the the Law Enforcement community say that marijuana should be legalized, but never have I heard a cop say fuck it! – Legalize all drugs. He points out how many drugs including morphine are sold over the counter in Mexico. Yet the shootouts aren’t happening in front of Mexican drug stores, they’re happening here in the U.S.
Former Mexican official urges legalizing marijuana – CNN.com
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on February 3, 2010
The United States and Mexico should both legalize marijuana in an attempt to break the power of the Mexican drug cartels and end the spiraling violence south of the border, a former Mexican foreign minister said Tuesday.
Solutions to Mexico’s Drug Crisis
Posted by admin in World News on December 30, 2009
To weaken the cartels, some argue the U.S. should legalize marijuana, let cocaine pass through the Caribbean and take the profit motive out of the drug trade.
Saving Mexico By Legalizing Drugs
Posted by admin in World News on December 26, 2009
To weaken the cartels, some argue the U.S. should legalize marijuana, let cocaine pass through the Caribbean and take the profit motive out of the drug trade.
How to End Mexico’s Deadly Drug War
Posted by admin in World News on November 30, 2009
It’s unrealistic, if not more so, to think that continuing our same failed drug war policies will do anything but exponentially increase the catastrophe they’ve spawned, both in Mexico and at home. It’s time to engage in a different strategy. It’s time to seriously consider legalizing marijuana and other drugs.
John Ross Legalize It!
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on November 18, 2009
“Drug reform is catching on in Latin America. In addition to Mexico’s feeble and misplaced efforts at providing alternatives to incarceration, Argentina courts recently ruled that personal possession of marijuana is not criminal. In Colombia, decriminalization of small amounts of cocaine has been the law since the 1990s.”
“Legalize it” lobby grows across Americas
Posted by admin in World News on October 20, 2009
Mexico and other Latin American countries are moving toward drug decriminalization — and Washington isn’t complaining. “I don’t care if the neighbors call the police on me. They can’t arrest me for this anymore,” said university student Salvador Chavez. “But then police here never cared much about a bit of marijuana anyway.”
US marijuana cuts into traffickers’ profits
Posted by admin in World News on October 12, 2009
The shifting economics of the marijuana trade have broad implications for Mexico’s war against the drug cartels, suggesting that market forces, as much as law enforcement, can extract a heavy price from criminal organizations that have used the spectacular profits generated by pot sales to fuel the violence and corruption that plague Mexico.
Homegrown American Marijuana Threatens Mexican Cartels
Posted by admin in Business & Finance on October 8, 2009
Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, according to law enforcement officials and pot growers in the United States and Mexico.
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