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Cocaine in Your Mailbox: Traffickers Increasingly Using Mail to Ship Drugs
More than 3,368 pounds of marijuana were found in the mail in Florida from January to June this year.blogs.miaminewtimes.com
Why not legalize marijuana and tax it, like liquor?
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on August 5, 2010
For generations, America’s drug laws have been stuck in a narrow and futile Prohibition that packs the prisons, abets narco-traffickers and costs states and theblogs.ajc.com
Pot Postal Shipments on the Rise
Marijuana traffickers are taking advantage of our national postal service like never before, according to new statistics from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service… The agency, which handles everything from mail fraud to parcel theft, reported a 400 percent increase in seizures of marijuana packages between 2007 and 2009.
Homegrown Pot Threatens Mexican Cartels – CBS News
Washington Post: American Mom-and-Pop Marijuana Growers Are Cutting Into Profits of Foreign Traffickers. That sure is a interesting spin on the economics of illegal drugs.
Legalized Marijuana? We May Already Be on the Way – ABC News
Last week the Obama Administration announced it would not seek to federally prosecute individuals or dispensaries who use or provide medicinal marijuana, as long as they complied with state law. Instead, a Justice Department memo said, state prosecutors should pursue “significant traffickers” of illegal drugs.
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.
Mexican Pot Growers Elude Border Security: Plant It Here
Posted by admin in Political News on September 28, 2009
Mexico’s drug cartels are leapfrogging tightened border security and establishing sophisticated marijuana-growing operations in North Texas and Oklahoma, law enforcement officials say. The traffickers’ farming operations, known as “grows,” have been an increasing problem on public lands in California and other Western states for some time.
Argentina to decriminalize personal marijuana use
Posted by admin in Political News on August 26, 2009
Argentina’s Supreme Court has just said no to prison for pot possession. The judges say the government should go after major traffickers and provide treatment to consumers, not jail. The decision doesn’t legalize drug possession outright. But Argentina’s Cabinet chief favors decriminalizing drug consumption.
AFP: Argentina legalizes personal marijuana use & possession
Posted by admin in World News on August 26, 2009
Argentina’s Supreme Court decriminalized the small-scale use of marijuana on Tuesday, opening the way for a shift in the country’s drug-fighting policies to focus on traffickers instead of users. The high court ruled it unconstitutional to prosecute cases involving the private use of marijuana.
High Sierras: The Woods are Full of Gun-Toting Narcofarmers
Posted by admin in Environment on July 9, 2009
Marijuana patches have sprung up on a third of California’s national parks and nearly 40 percent of all national forests. Where hippies once grew just enough weed to peace out, traffickers now cultivate more than 100,000 plants at a time on 30-acre terraces irrigated by plastic pipe, laced with illegal pesticides, and guarded by Mac-10s and Uzis.
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