[gubamyster]

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[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

Just say no to drugs and then it will stop.

[janetgreen]

This President has no interest in protecting our borders.

[Cindy]

LINKS OF INTEREST:

NATIONAL POST.com ( A Part of CANADA.com): "AL-QAEDA TAPE PRAISES CANADIAN AS HERO, MARTYR Video Depicts Terrorist Training and Attacks in 'Jihad Lands'" by Stewart Bell (December 6, 2003) (Read More...)

CANADA.com: "KHADR ADMITS GETTING AL-QAIDA ARMS TRAINING Canadian citizen held by the U.S. military calls on Ottawa to help win release of his brother, accused of killing an American soldier" by Mike Blanchfield, The Ottawa Citizen (December 2, 2003) (Read More...)

CTV.ca: "TERRORIST SUSPECT KHADR BACK IN CANADA: REPORT" (Updated December 1, 2003) (Read More...)

THE STAR.com - THE TORONTO STAR: "KHADR WELCOME TO RETURN, SAYS CANADA" by Tim Harper (November 26, 2003) (Read More...)

BORDERLANDNEWS.com - EL PASO TIMES.com: "NM COUPLE ACCUSED OF SMUGGLING PEOPLE" (December 2, 2003) (Read More...)

KVIA.com: "DRUG SMUGGLERS RESORT TO OLD WEST STYLE OF USING HORSES" (December 2, 2003) (Read More...)

WorldNetDaily.com: "TERRORIST BASE SOUTH OF BORDER" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "At this stage the growing danger is that of militant Islam penetrating Mexico, a country with an increasing Muslim community, including Muslim converts. Some of them have ties to the Mexican community and to illegal immigrants' smugglers operating in American states bordering Mexico, especially those with connections in the greater Los Angeles area and other major cities.") (December 1, 2003) (Read More...)

INDYSTAR.com - INDIANAPOLIS STAR: "PROBE OF BMV LICENSE FRAUD WIDENS 9 Counties May Be Involved; Mexican Citizen Also Charged" (December 2, 2003) (Read More...)

NY DAILY NEWS.com: "UNSECURE BORDERS INVITING DISEASE, PESTS - AND TERROR" -Column by Lou Dobbs (November 30, 2003) (Read More...)

[jwh_Denver]

So they are saying no to drugs but yes to illegal immigrants?

[vpintheak]

Another reason to legalize it. Prohibition doesn't work folks.

[tinamina]

Funny, I was at the Peace Arch Park in Blaine, WA last summer with my family. I thought at the time that it would be so easy to just keep walking, no one would probably notice. My brother said the cameras would get you. He lives in Bellingham. He said that the cameras look at your license plate before they get there and run your registration so when they stop your car at the border coming into the States they already have a pretty good idea who you are.

[Drammach]

Slug spit..

This didn't "just happen", and it isn't a "suddenly growing phenomenon"..
Canadian border drug smuggling has been going on for years now, and the list of corrupt government officials from local to fed is mind-boggling.
As is the list of people whose lives have been ruined if not lost trying to fight the smugglers and their cronies.

The only amazing thing is that the perps and their comrades in crime have managed to keep it so quiet.

An occassional article like this one comes out acting like this is some newly birthed problem..
It is not.
People along the border either ignore it, protest weakly and quietly, get paid off, threatened, hurt or murdered.
It is very, very seldom the anti-drug side gets a "win", and when they do, it is treated as an "isolated incident".

This from a long time ND resident that still visits ND, MN, MT every year or two.
This is NOT just a Montana problem. It is pervasive, and includes ND and Minnesota.
Wanna see how a REAL Drugs and Prostitution ring is run? Try Minnesota.
"Circuits" from one small MN city to the next run throughout the state, with as many as 20-25 cities to a circuit and no prostitute stays in one place for more than a week.
Those prostitutes also act as "horses" or carriers for drugs along that same circuit.
There are at least 100 "runs" of this sort throughout MN and WI area serving the tourist market and the Great Lakes ports.

ONE LAST THING!!!
With the signing of the new Medicare Drugs Plan, re-importing of prescription drugs from Canada will be banned.
Although there was NO reported instances of "bad" drugs ever coming from Canada, you can guarantee that such drugs and reports of drug deaths from illegally smuggled prescription drugs will be making headlines in YOUR LOCALITY, wherever that may be.

That's because the smuggling of prescription drugs will now become a black-market business.
Simply smuggling prescription drugs from Canada will not produce a satisfactory profit margin, so those drugs will be "cut" with everything from flour to arsenic and chemical waste. (heavy metals, etc.)
Don't just take my word for it, print this out and post it on your refrigerator.
The death toll will begin within a year of the ban taking effect.

[bc2]

you run the WOD ping list?

I will take note of this: "the high-grade marijuana (from British Columbia, Canada) that sells for up to $6,000 a pound".

In actuality, the BC marijuana is very often inferior to American weed, and it never sells for more than $4000 per pound wholesale, at least here in Upstate New York. Now, we know that the gov't loves to use the retail prices in these articles, so let's see... 8 parts to an oz, each going for $50. So if you have 16 oz's in a pound, that's 128 "1/8's", multiply that and you get $6400 retail. For once they used a low number!

[TKDietz]

This article is just plain dishonest. First, it leaves out the fact that just a tiny fraction of the imported marijuana that comes into this country is coming from Canada (less than 5% I believe). Then, the author claims that Canadian marijuana is all between 20% and 30% THC, which is false. Canadian studies show averages for Canadian hydroponically grown sinsemilla (seedless) as being much lower than 20% with an occasional sample testing out really high. Sinsemilla in the US averages around 13% or 14% give or take a couple of percent depending on which who is doing the study. Some indoor marijuana here sometimes tests out at approaching 30% THC. This stuff is grown indoors. It's not like the indoor climate in Canada is better for growing marijuana than the indoor climate is here.

Something conveniently left out of this article is the fact that historically Canada has always suffered a major trade deficit with the US when it comes to illegal drugs. This may be changing, but more drugs have always come through here and gone up there than the other way around. Still the vast majority of cocaine and many other hard drugs in Canada are being smuggled from here.

We are seeing an increasing amount of anti-Canada propaganda related to illegal drugs issues. This is mostly spurned by the fact that Canada is decriminalizing marijuana. For whatever reason, this scares the heck out of so many in the US even though as Canada softens their laws against marijuana users they are sharply increasing the penalties against growers and traffickers, and even though the laws that are going into effect in Canada for marijuana users are no less strict than they are in many U.S. states. There are several US states with even less stringent laws against marijuana users than the Canadians are proposing.

[jmc813]

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