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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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To: etcetera
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.

The trip leaders that I've spoken to who no longer go there have observed cached baloons of what appeared to be cocaine. As another poster mentions, the article does seem more concerned about the cacti than people. When they mention But because it shares 30 miles of backcountry border with Mexico— fenced only with easy-to-cut barbed wire they fail to mention that we're talking a couple of single strands of wire that wouldn't keep a cow in or out (unless it's been upgraded in the last 8-10 years) and that a Mexican highway paralells the border of the park on the other side.

17 posted on 07/19/2002 10:21:46 AM PDT by SJackson
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