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US drugs now flowing INTO Mexico: Cartels are smuggling high-grade medicinal marijuana
Daily Mail (UK) ^
| 12/4/2014
| Khaleda Rahman
Posted on 12/04/2014 3:33:53 PM PST by RightGeek
Mexican drug cartels are now smuggling higher grade and more expensive marijuana grown in the US south of the border.
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the alleged smuggling involves marijuana grown by American entrepreneurs in states that allow marijuana for medicinal or recreational use, most recently Oregon and Alaska.
DEA spokesman Lawrence Payne said the agency learned of the trafficking from intelligence operations - but said the scale of the operation is not known.
[snip]
Earlier this week, NPR reported that domestic sales of marijuana are undercutting the operations of Mexican cartels - and as a result, the Sinaloa Cartel is smuggling US grown marijuana into Mexico, mainly from Colorado.
Mr Payne told the broadcaster: 'It makes sense...If you can buy some really high-quality weed here, why not smuggle it south, too, and sell it at a premium?'
[snip]
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KEYWORDS: cannabis; mexico
How long before Barky claims he is reducing the balance of payments deficit?
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:33:53 PM PST
by
RightGeek
Interesting news...
The likelihood this export will be (re)imported ?
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:36:41 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: RightGeek
Hard to imagine you could get more for it in Mexico than in the U.S.
To: RightGeek
First they haul it in, and now they are hauling it out?? HMMM...shouldn’t there be an exit tax?
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:50:47 PM PST
by
Kackikat
To: colorado tanker
How long before we find out the smuggling was aided and abetted by the Justice Department?
(fast and furious reference)
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:51:08 PM PST
by
glorgau
To: colorado tanker
Exactly.
For a country whose restaurants will substitute yellow died lard for butter, this seems hard to believe.
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:52:00 PM PST
by
dhs12345
To: RightGeek
So manufacturing is making a comeback?
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:52:06 PM PST
by
Salvavida
(The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
To: glorgau
But we already know the Government is in bed with the cartels, they always have been. Without Our Government being heavily involved on both sides of The War on Controlled Substances not available by prescription would never be possible.
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:59:00 PM PST
by
eyeamok
To: RightGeek
Illegal immigrant gangsters doing the jobs American gangsters won’t do!
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posted on
12/04/2014 4:00:18 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: RightGeek
Now if only the illegals would follow.
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posted on
12/04/2014 4:23:25 PM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: RightGeek
Mexico hoping out liberal enabled enablers
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posted on
12/04/2014 4:30:03 PM PST
by
Recompennation
(if the bill doesn't fit you can't convict)
To: RightGeek
Maybe they will build a fence to keep it out.
To: RightGeek
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posted on
12/04/2014 5:45:45 PM PST
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: RightGeek
"Much of this marijuana is being grown [and] obtained in states that have relaxed their marijuana laws, such as Colorado...the Sinaloa Cartel is smuggling US grown marijuana into Mexico, mainly from Colorado."
Mexico couldn't afford it. It's probably sent down their for further concentration to be put into various finished products like candy before being re-exported to the U.S.A.
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posted on
12/04/2014 5:54:29 PM PST
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: familyop
I have never heard of Marijuana-infused edibles from Mexico. Doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
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posted on
12/04/2014 6:04:27 PM PST
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: RightGeek
Mexico is such a basket case. They’ve been growing pot for over 50 years, outdoors in a semi-tropical climate, and they have to import weed grown inside by Oregon hippie snowboarders to get some decent smoke. LOL
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posted on
12/04/2014 6:22:42 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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