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A favorite destination in years past. Now a part of America essentially "out of bounds".
1 posted on 07/19/2002 8:00:11 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson
I've seen these cacti show up at various farmers' markets in a couple of states. They are also seen in many Phoenix yards, symbols of greed.
2 posted on 07/19/2002 8:03:20 AM PDT by ofMagog
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To: *Wod_list
More casualties in the War On (some) Drugs: organ pipe cacti. How much collateral damage is too much? Decriminalization would end this destruction.
3 posted on 07/19/2002 8:11:39 AM PDT by coloradan
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To: SJackson
In many cases, seriously dehydrated hikers destroy cactuses to get to their stored water supplies.

Smuggle dope, smuggle illegals, thats bad, yadda yadda, but chop up a cactus to get a drink in the desert, and you are going to jail.

We have rangers with night vision, body armor, and M16's to see that you get what's coming to you.

5 posted on 07/19/2002 8:27:18 AM PDT by marron
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To: SJackson
I have heard that Organ Pipe is one of those UN International Peace Parks. So much for peace there.
7 posted on 07/19/2002 8:50:58 AM PDT by TigersEye
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To: SJackson
Either legalize pot or start protecting our borders from this scum by using our military.
9 posted on 07/19/2002 9:07:51 AM PDT by billyhill
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To: SJackson
Who would want to smuggle organ pipes?
11 posted on 07/19/2002 9:31:14 AM PDT by Tony in Hawaii
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To: SJackson
The article doesn't explain why the smugglers are carrying marijuana instead of cocaine. Cocaine has a higher value-per-pound rate than MJ, so you'd think that smuggling coke would make more sense financially.

But this article is more proof that MJ should be legalized to remove the profit motive.

16 posted on 07/19/2002 10:12:33 AM PDT by etcetera
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Both strategies pose dangers to smugglers, rangers, park visitors, and perhaps most of all, to the park's fragile desert ecosystem.

Oh, the lovely fragile desert. The cursed, rainless place where only the hideous and freakishly mutated survive. WTF is this, an episode of "Captain Planet"?

18 posted on 07/19/2002 12:01:50 PM PDT by Jonathon Spectre
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