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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.

Of course it isn't an emerging problem. I should know, I live in Montana about 4 miles from the Canadian border, next to a back road that leads into Canada. Before the BP put motion sensors along the borderline, illegal drug shipments were as common as farm tractors coming and going across the border. Sometimes those drugs were packed inside farm equipment. This was going on for more than a decade in the 1970's and 1980's. Farm equipment coming and going across the border is pretty common, as alot of farmers on this side of the border have sections of land in Canada which they farm.

I'm not advocating we shut down our borders because of this "emergine problem", I'm saying we as a country should be pooling our resources more wisely to start clamping down on what could eventually be another 9/11.

The War On Drugs has been a lost cause from the word "go", why Democrats feel that if they throw money on the problem, it will just go away, just boggles my mind, because thats the mentality of politicians, particularly Democrats these days.

Every so often there's an article I read in the Billings Gazette of someone stopped at the border because they were caught with marijuana or some other illegal drug in their possession, then they get commuted back to Canada to wait in line to face charges. Meanwhile that criminal just slips out of the system and goes back to what he/she was doing before.

The judicial system in this country and in Canada are both a farce, the War On Drugs is a scam and a failure, it's time to straighten out the judicial system in this country and legalize marijuana to the point it's out of the control of the dealers and smugglers and into the control of the government and manufacturers. This is the only way the border problem will be solved.