Posted on 08/28/2006 9:38:28 AM PDT by radar101
Illegal marijuana production is surging on the North Coast and across the state as a result of rising dominance of Mexican crime families over the state's underground pot economy.
Scores of Mexican nationals are being sneaked across the border to grow, guard and harvest marijuana gardens inside California because tightened border security has crimped smuggling of Mexican-grown pot into the state, according to local, state and federal drug agents.
Mexican-controlled operations now account for as much as 70 percent of all the marijuana cultivated in the state's rural regions, including the North Coast, the agents said.
Agents say tightened U.S.-Mexican border security has prompted Mexican operators to underwrite the costs of growing, harvesting and distributing pot in California rather than face risks associated with conventional dope smuggling operations across the border
Just producing the drugs Americans won't produce.
Stepping up to the plate providing products Americans want like Canada, Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba did during the prohibition.
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Noe said the men are provided guns, food and campsites. They're paid up to $10,000 cash for their seasonal marijuana work, which typically runs from April through October, agents said.
Doing the jobs Americans won't do.
"Stepping up to the plate providing products..."
Yeah that's it. It's out of the good of their heart that some illegal immigrants smuggle drugs into America, steal, terrorize towns, kill innocents and law enforcement among many other things to give people want they need and want. Money and profit have nothing to do with it.
Do you listen to yourself?
Mexican crime families are establishing footholds throughout the US. Often, they start with legitimate businesses to build a local political presence. Using their protected status in Mexico as a base, they will be hard to eradicate.
Another benefit of globalization.
As George Bush would say, they are here to perform a public service by "doing jobs that Americans won't do" like growing and distributing drugs.
Mexican crime families run Mexicos government.. always have.. Wonder why the White RINO House does not know that?.. Maybe they do?.. How much does an American President cost?... must be expensive..
Well... Thank goodness we have a War on Drugs to count on for this sort of thing. I'm sure that it will all be straightened out in a year or two or three or ten or fifty or...
If the Mexicans were smart they'd simply say all these grow operations are for medical use and they'd be perfectly legal.
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(from article)(snip)State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said last month that Mexican drug traffickers are using marijuana profits "to finance the production and distribution of methamphetamine" nationwide.(snip)
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Grow your own marijuana and fight the meth problem at the same time. That's sweet!
Another great reason for not using illegal drugs. But we'll never see this one in a commercial.
Cool, they just admitted in writing the massive failure of the War on Some Drugs.
Marijuana growers and state experts say a single mature marijuana plant can produce a half-pound or more of high-grade pot.
Sure it can, but if it's grown in a 2 acre field with Mexicans guarding it, it's most likely mid-grade schwag.
Very well said. Usually they start with the obligatory Mexican restaurant or corner store. These are fronts just as the old Italian restaurants were fronts for Mafia bosses during the Mob years.
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