Agents seize $1M marijuana load

Sierra Vista Herald, Sierra Vista Arizona ^ | 02/11/05

[SandRat]

Drug smugglers

[Sender]

If it were legal, none of the criminal enterprise would exist. It's a classic case of a solution creating its own problem. Gotta fund that WOSD.

[Dark Skies]

The truck's driver was unaware he had been spotted and drove slowly along local ranch roads until the truck reached Highway 92.

When an agent attempted to stop the vehicle on the highway near Miller Canyon Road, the driver performed an illegal U-turn in the middle of the highway and headed east.

Note to self, new driver dipping into inventory.

[Sender]

Also why is a pile of dried leaves worth $1.2M? I'll leave that for FR academics to figure out.

[Gewittermädchen]

It must have been the Chevy SUV's fault...

[hophead]

I bet they had a drivers license from a US state!

[Indie]

Don't give money to foreign drug dealers. Legalize it..prohibition didn't work with alcohol anymore than it is working with marijuana...or else grow your own.

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[HiJinx]

They (the ddrug smugglers) are going to get somebody else killed it they keep this up.

[Sender]

Exactly, the WOSD is funding foreign drug dealers with possible terrorist ties, $1.2 million in a single pickup truck load, all because of political correctness.

[Phantom Lord]

I wish I could remember who and ping them to this. I was having a WOD argument with some anti MJ legalization Freeper who thought I was crazy when I said that MJ is imported into this country. Idiot.

[politicalwit]

Ok, while we're at it lets legalize cocaine and meth and hash.

Lets' make smoking a cigarette without government interference before we go headfirst in to the illegal stuff.

[zencat]

If it were legal, none of the criminal enterprise would exist.

I'm not a legalize it guy, but it should ABSOLUTELY be decriminalized. I don't wish to pay taxes for anyone for sitting in jail for smoking or dealing marijuana. From what I've seen in my own life from family and friends, alcohol is vastly more destructive that pot.

[mdmathis6]

I'll be there are two dead mexicans somewhere!

[Sender]

You can be sure that Mexico and Canada and countless other countries don't want it decriminalized. Not at all! For then, no one would pay them $1.2 million for a truckload of dry leaves. Their illegal cash cow would croak.

[Stew Padasso]

Meanwhile, perverts, thieves and murderers are acting out. But damnit, we'll devote resources and time to get that thar mary jane!

[SandRat]

Yep! And I can hear the "Legalize it Now" types now.

[hophead]

"Don't give money to foreign drug dealers. Legalize it..prohibition didn't work with alcohol anymore than it is working with marijuana...or else grow your own."

There is too many people who's lively hood is directly reliant upon the illegal drug trade to legalize it. 1: Local police departments receive tens of millions of dollars a year in forfeitures alone due to the drug and seizure laws. There are some small police departments in the US whose budgets DEPEND on seizures from those drug arrests. 2: Where would all the private prisons be without all the non-violent drug users filling their beds? Need I go on?

[Rembrandt_fan]

It spooks me when I hear prominent conservatives like Buckley go soft on the drug war, drawing the inevitable 'Thirties-era Prohibition comparisons, bemoaning the futility of the whole thing, et al.

Drug addicts only get well if they reach an emotional, financial, and/or legal bottom. The system should be so constructed to give them just that. The implementation of Drug Courts here in Indiana has proven highly effective, giving treatment alternatives to those that genuinely want a better life, and putting those in jail who don't. Drug dealers--and I mean the heavy hitter, by-the-ton and -kilo career criminals, not the strung-out junkie sort--should be given years upon years upon years of hard time, making little rocks from big ones.

Marijuana is far from harmless. It sucks the life and ambition from its users, causes long-term and sometimes permanent cognitive problems, and opens the door to other, harder drugs. (Good luck finding a heroin addict who didn't try weed first.) The campaign by mass media to normalize its use is unconscionable.

[SandRat]

The MJ crowd and it doesn't matter if they live on DU or any where else can not be swayed by facts about MJ.