44 TONS OF MARIJUANA SEIZED IN TIJUANA, MEXICO

[Jesus Malverde]

Last edited Sat May 3, 2014, 07:49 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: AP

Mexico's attorney general says investigators have seized 44 tons (39 metric tons) of marijuana in Tijuana across the border from San Diego, California.

A statement from the office says that nearly 4,000 packets of drugs were found in the Granjas Familiares del Matamoros neighborhood based on a federal warrant. Mexican military and Tijuana police conducted the raid. There were no arrests.

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I seem to remember the feds denying mexican cartels were involved in smuggling marijuana during the california legalization debates.

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. The question was how much cartel income was derived from marijuana.

Nobody really knows, of course, but the Prop 19 folks saw "We're taking money out of the hands of criminals" as a good campaign rallying cry. They used a federal government estimate that pot accounted for 60% of cartel profits, but then, just before the 2010 election, a Rand study came out in the nick of time to say it was only 15% to 26%.

Still, it's clear, as this latest bust shows, that marijuana is big business for the cartels, especially the Sinaloa Cartel, because it's a product they control from the farmstead up. Unlike cocaine, they don't have to buy it from the Colombians; they have vertical integration. Nationwide legalization in the US would definitely hurt them, but as long as there are black markets to supply, they will be there.

Although, for the life of me, I can't see why anyone is still buying Mexican brick weed. Of course, I live in a de facto legal state.

[Demobrat]

21. I bought some "Mexican Flower" down there on vacation

I actually sort of liked it. It didn't make me feel as dopey as the scientifically grown stuff does.

[TeamPooka]

2. Prohibition is a failed public policy. nt

[RKP5637]

11. And especially the stupid prohibitions, but we never seem to learn lessons. n/t

[Inkfreak]

3. dibs!

[Major Nikon]

4. It wouldn't surprise me if Mexican officials are reselling it as we speak

When I lived in El Paso, the Juarez police chief came across the border to attend a conference and they caught him driving a stolen American vehicle.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Or they found 50 tons. nt

[Earth_First]

6. Ditch weed.

Bone dry, seeded and tastes like junk.

The only thing it's good for is making butter.

Period.

Send it back...

[heaven05]

7. lol, true

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. Somebody, somewhere in America is smoking that shit by the ton, though.

The only place I see Mexican brick weed, though, is in the Midwest.

[jtuck004]

9. Kids in cars all across Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico. n/t

[Inkfreak]

10. I grew up in Syracuse, NY.

Brick weed was the only thing we could find. When I finally found the kind bud I just about lost my mind. No seeds, no stems?? Look at the color!! And what's a grinder??

So began a love affair...

[JoeyT]

19. It's pretty common in the South too.

I don't know about Florida, but all the way over to Florida.

I don't fool with it anymore, but back when I still smoked from time to time and had friends that smoked a lot, it was pretty much all you could get. If you could find anything else, it was so exorbitantly expensive it wasn't worth buying except for special occasions.

[snooper2]

20. You are actually correct, dealers here in Texas grab the better shit for sale

send the crap up to missouri

[azurnoir]

14. and from there

brownies, cookies, 'spice' bars -no need to send it back

[Le Taz Hot]

12. Street value: $1.98 n/t

[Iggo]

13. Legalize it.

[herding cats]

15. The link isn't workng for me

Is it working for others?

[RainDog]

16. here's another link that works

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/44-tons-marijuana-seized-tijuana-mexico-23577118

Mexico's attorney general says investigators have seized 44 tons (39 metric tons) of marijuana in Tijuana across the border from San Diego, California.

A statement from the office says that nearly 4,000 packets of drugs were found in the Granjas Familiares del Matamoros neighborhood based on a federal warrant. Mexican military and Tijuana police conducted the raid. There were no arrests.

The statement says the seizure occurred Thursday.

Tijuana is known for huge marijuana seizures because of its proximity to the U.S., including Mexico's largest to date: 148 tons (134 metric tons) found in 2010. At least seven sophisticated tunnels under the border have been found in recent years. Roughly the same amount of marijuana seized Thursday was found outside the entrance of a tunnel discovered in Tijuana in 2012.

good thing he was arrested back in Feb., huh? Otherwise we might have metric tons of marijuana to deal with...

http://www.azcentral.com/news/free/20140222mexico-drug-war-sinaloa-cartel-guzman-arrest.html

except, those who look at this issue don't think he will ever be extradited to the U.S. (and he'd already "escaped" from prison in Mexico a decade ago.

https://news.azpm.org/p/news-fp-featured/2014/5/2/34414-az-week-el-chapo-will-never-be-extradited-to-us/

"...the U.S. was fighting so hard to extradite him...it is interesting that (Mexican President) Enrique Peña Nieto chose not to extradite him...I think Peña Nieto is trying to send the message in that...Mexico has the control over its own fate," said Sylvia Longmire, author of Border Insecurity: Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren't Making Us Safer and border analyst, during Friday's broadcast of Arizona Week.

..."We've seen numerous extraditions, because we know, if they are extradited here, they will go through a trial...a plea deal...(and amid a plea deal), they will be able to provide intelligence to the (Drug Enforcement Agency)," she said. Many argue this is the exact reason why he will never be extradited.

It is argued the Mexican government cannot afford Guzman to roll out a list of higher-ups who've been or still are in his pocket.

"He will never be extradited to the U.S.," said Terry Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. "The attorney general from Mexico said 'absolutely not,' no matter how much pressure the U.S. puts on them. They don't want the public corruption involved there...his network..." or the identities of the politicians and law enforcement agents who allegedly collaborated with him, he argued.

Yet our govt. continues to provide billions of dollars, much of it unaccounted for, to military contractors to "fight" this war.

When will Americans finally get sick of this shell game of corruption between monied entities, I wonder? Obviously it pays some politicians well to be drug warriors on both sides of the border.

[Jesus Malverde]

18. Thanks for the heads up, updated...nt

[FreedRadical]

17. No arrests made??

Just left that shit on the side of the road?

[WhiteTara]

22. On the health side, they still use Paraquat nt.