Drug cartels still smugging shit into USA

Discussion in 'Marijuana News' started by grasscoty, Oct 23, 2015.

  1. What the fuck? We have an answer to stop this bullshit.......legalize!!!! Fuckin cartels smuggling contaminted shit weed into the streets of USA to sell to the high school kids. WTF? We have the goddam answer!!!!




    (CNN)Smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico border have become so sophisticated in moving drugs that one "super tunnel" raided this week featured a railway.


    The tunnel stretched the length of eight football fields, from a Tijuana warehouse to a San Diego warehouse, and had a rail system, lighting, electricity, and metal beams to prevent a cave-in.
    Authorities confiscated at least 12 tons of marijuana with a street value of $6 million and arrested 22 people in San Diego and Tijuana in connection with the one of the largest tunnels uncovered in recent years.
    "We see a super tunnel open for business once every year or so," U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy of Southern California said in a statement. "Just when traffickers think they're ready to move, we put them out of business."
    The newly constructed tunnel was discovered as part of a six-month investigation that began last May and involved an undercover agent who helped transport buckets filled with dirt from the tunnel warehouse and then offered to transport and store drugs for the defendants, authorities said.



    U.S. and Mexican authorities raided a drug smugglers' "super tunnel" connecting warehouses in Tijuana and San Diego. The tunnel is lit, ventilated, equipped with a rail car system, and lined with metal beams to prevent collapse.





    The San Diego end of the tunnel is located just a half-mile from the Otay Mesa border crossing.
    On Wednesday, the defendants told the undercover agent about moving loads of marijuana from the tunnel warehouse to another warehouse. Authorities believe this would have been the first time that a significant amount of drugs would have been moved through the tunnel.
    But by Wednesday night, authorities seized control of the "sophisticated cross-border super tunnel," authorities said in a press release.
    The tunnel is the tenth large-scale drug smuggling tunnel discovered in the San Diego area since 2006. In all, authorities have found more than 75 cross-border smuggling tunnels, mostly in California and Arizona, prosecutors said.
     
  2. if all drugs were legal cartels would be put out of business
     
  3. So we would rather waste more money to bust their expensive operations than actually legalize and control stock and regulation of the product ourselves? Man America is really odd.
     
  4. This is just ridiculous. This shit wouldn't happen if bud was legal. LEGALIZE THAT SHIT, MAN!!!!!!!!!
     
  5. Legalization is not going to eliminate cartel activity or any other element that wants to participate in illegal activity. As long as they believe they can make money, they will continue to smuggle...


    The amount of actual smuggled weight might decrease, but it will NOT disappear.

     
  6. It's happening though kiddos! 😜


    States are continuing to legalize and slowly but surely cartels will run out of customers. As soon as this happens the numbers will speak for themselves.


    It's a shame we have to wait, but keep on supporting and being an active piece of our voice and the change will come!


     
  7. #7 EmeraldCream, Oct 27, 2015
    Last edited by a moderator: Oct 27, 2015
    LOL as long as legalization keeps being hung on trying to tax the worlds problems away under hyper restricted licencing the cartels will keep a good chunk of the cannabis market....


    Until everyone realizes the state is NOT in control simply because they write some twisted sort of legalization of cannabis the shit show will continue. They have to win the market before they try and screw every single penny they can out of the consumer. Otherwise they will laugh at the states 50$ gram of shake and go vote their wallet with the guy they've been using for years/decades and buy a black market top shelf for 1/2 the price.


    Like the regulations CA just passed (the ones where they are treating cannabis like weapons grade radioactive Ebola from outer space) these power/money grab versions of legalization are going to be the best thing that's happened to the cartels since the drug war itself..... to a comical extent.



    [​IMG]





     
  8. Are cartels still smuggling alcohol to the US from Mexico and Canada? I tried to look up cartel alcohol smuggling and couldn't find anything.
     
  9. They'd find other illegal ways to make lots of money, more than likely go exclusively into the human trafficking and identity theft racket, but I feel you.
     
  10. #10 Jimmy Carter, Oct 27, 2015
    Last edited by a moderator: Oct 27, 2015
    Well yeah, I just meant the drug aspect of it [​IMG]


    Oh and Decriminalization > Legalization

     
  11. Last I heard weed is still illegal in most US states, as well as federally. Sounds like they have some room to profit.
     
  12. if all drugs were legal it would be the wild fucking west. no way....
     
  13. I don't think all drugs should be legal..


    I don't like the idea of companies selling meth over the counter and readily killing people for profit, all while these corporations give in to political campaigns and the like. Big Tobacco is bad enough.


    Decriminalization is one thing, but full legalization seems a bit radical. I don't think anyone should be locked up for doing what they want with their body, and we should instead use that tax money to offer rehabilitation for those who need it.


    Besides I find it hard to believe the cartel would ever completely dissipate. I'm always hearing about some new drug wrecking havoc on society; now in Florida there's this terrible shit called flakka going around. I feel like it would be like trying to plug a wall with a bunch of holes in it, with the various drugs representing the holes...You plug a bunch but then a new one emerges.






     
  14. #14 Lenny., Oct 27, 2015
    Last edited: Oct 27, 2015
    it's a good thing they're illegal. we wouldn't want violent gangs, being supplied by even larger and more violent gangs, having dominion over the drug trade and shooting each other in the streets over it. it would be sort of like.... the wild fucking west.
     
  15. It isn't radical. That's how it was for most of the country's history, up until less than 100 years ago. Drug use has shot up (pun intended) to astronomical levels since prohibition. It's time to go back to what was working, because what he have now clearly isn't.
     
  16. if u legalize weed the cartels will concentrate their efforts on meth. there's no winning this game. you have to send the entire goddamn armed forces in there to nip the problem in the bud once and for all


    or send them money. tht works too. but if i now my america, and ive spent the better part of my life analyzing everything u guys do, i know tht u prefer killing over spending money any day of the week










    lol

     
  17. just because drugs are legal doesn't make them free. there would be far more addicts, rapists, robbers and the like then there is now if you legalized drugs because they would be far easier to get. not to mention all of the other crime associated with the population at large getting fucked up with out repercussion.


    like when it wasn't illegal to drink and drive. know why they make it illegal to get all fucked up and then drive cars, operate machinery and fly planes / jets? thats right because it was turning into a drunken wild west in the streets and at some point planes were going to start falling out of the sky.


    as for that other shit, i don't have that going on in my neighborhood. no wild west, no violent gangs where i live, they certainly aren't shooting each other in the streets like you are insinuating. you legalize all drugs and it will be though.
     
  18. Just look at what Portugal did, decriminalized all drugs. Heroin overdoses decreased, heroin usage in teens decreased, drug use overall in teens decreased, among others.


    Decriminalizing takes away the 'risky' aspect of it for younger minds. You know when you tell a little kid not to do something, they're gonna do it just cause you told em not to ;)

     
  19. #19 Lenny., Oct 27, 2015
    Last edited: Oct 27, 2015
    why are gangs and crime syndicates not making money off of alcohol anymore?
     
  20. #20 JaySteele, Oct 27, 2015
    Last edited by a moderator: Oct 28, 2015
    Actually the contrary is true. Drug use seems to have not been affected in in places where it's been decriminalized/legalized. Hell, it actually decreased in Portugal.


    Prohibiting a good does not eliminate the market for that good. Prohibition may shrink the market, by raising costs and therefore price, but even under strongly enforced prohibitions, a substantial black market emerges in which production and use continue. And black markets generate numerous unwanted side effects.


    Black markets increase violence because buyers and sellers can't resolve disputes with courts, lawyers, or arbitration, so they turn to guns instead.




     

Share This Page