And craploads of crystal meth. A friend of mine works for ICE in El Paso and he’ll be the first to tell you that marijuana was long ago eclipsed by meth...among other things.
Amphetamines used to be a pretty private scandal as long as pharmacies carried them and hypochondriacs prevailed on sympathetic doctors for the prescriptions. Now they are getting scores killed, not by the drugs but by the crime.
John P. Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said marijuana, not heroin or cocaine, is the "bread and butter," "the center of gravity" for Mexican drug cartels that every year smuggle tons of it through the porous U.S.-Mexico border. Of the $13.8 billion that Americans contributed to Mexican drug traffickers in 2004-05, about 62 percent, or $8.6 billion, comes from marijuana consumption.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/022208dnintdrugs.3a98bb0.html
“... marijuana was long ago eclipsed by meth...among other things.”
I had a good friend who got hooked on meth. He lost his job, and turned to crime. I haven’t heard anthing about him in several years.
He was a good worker till the meth got to him.