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To: Cindy

Holy smokes! Thats a lot of narcotics.


13 posted on 02/25/2009 5:17:10 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: FlyingEagle

Yes.


14 posted on 02/25/2009 5:17:42 PM PST by Cindy
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To: FlyingEagle

And alot of $$.


20 posted on 02/25/2009 5:34:23 PM PST by HollyB
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To: FlyingEagle; SmallGovRepub
Thats a lot of narcotics.

That does seem like a large amount of cocaine, but I don't have any figures on imports.

For marijuana, which is THE bread and butter for the cartels, it isn't that much. In 21 months they seized 16,000 pounds or 8 tons. According to the poster I pinged:

The USDOJ in their 2009 Drug Threat Assessment said that Mexicans produced about 15,500 metric tons of marijuana in 2007 and most of it came here.

So in a nearly 2 year investigation, they nabbed about 0.05% of the yearly total imported from Mexico, if my math is correct.

My guess is, this would be the oil market equivalent of an oil pipeline getting blown up. It's a nuisance, but everybody can still get gas at the pump.

23 posted on 02/25/2009 6:26:30 PM PST by Ken H
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