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To: Ken H
“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.”

That's not a big enough amount to any effect on the supply of pot in this country, but it was still a pretty good lick for this particular organization when you count all the other drugs and the money they seized and the number of people they arrested. This is an attack on the cartels. You know of course I think we should legalize marijuana and believe that that would be a massive blow to the cartels. I think that will happen someday, but in the meantime we need to hit these Mexican drug trafficking organizations hard and let them know that we mean business and we won't put up with their crap like the Mexican government does. I hope ICE shows up in court and deports any of their family members who show up to see them who happen to be illegals. We're not going to stop the flow of drugs but this is about more than the black market for drugs. These organizations are taking over Mexico. We can't have that. We can't have Mexico totally destabilized by a bunch of greedy murderous thugs. That will hurt us, guaranteed. We don't want the ba$tards operating here either.

29 posted on 02/25/2009 9:01:55 PM PST by SmallGovRepub
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To: SmallGovRepub
These organizations are taking over Mexico. We can't have that. We can't have Mexico totally destabilized by a bunch of greedy murderous thugs. That will hurt us, guaranteed.

Amen

I have a hard time believing that marijuana is more dangerous than the profit and the government that the illegal trade in it creates. And stories like this make it seem no less available than it would be if we ignored it.

30 posted on 02/25/2009 9:14:24 PM PST by Theophilus (The people who were going to buy your home got aborted 30 years ago.)
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