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This video is of 30 tons of marijuana. It was seized by authorities from a single tunnel running under the Mexican-American border, near San Diego. This 30 tons, that is 60,000 pounds, is merely the amount of marijuana this single active tunnel had on hand. The total amount of marijuana that over time was moved through just this one tunnel was probably much higher.
Americans are going to keep using marijuana, and as long as it is illegal, violent criminal organizations are only going to keep finding new ways to make sure they make massive profits off of this illegal trade.
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That is a lot of smoke.
Hmmm….legalizing it, makes it taxable. Taxing it, means increasing the costs of it, since everyone knows, the government takes it’s taxation with a “holy cow, look what they’ll pay, so let’s increase it for more money” attitude, as with any cash cow. This would bring about a black market, and right back to square one. Unless of course, they can go about it like alcohol, and have stores selling it, where of course there would have to be markups as corporations need those megaprofits, etc, etc, etc. I don’t see an upside to this at all.
No it wouldn’t. The costs would plummet from what they are now. In fact, one of the reasons the local Cali growers are against legalization is because they wouldn’t be able to charge as much for it. However, being that Colombian narcotraffickers are trying to muscle them out of the market anyway with huge plantations in California state and national forests — plantations that seldom get touched as GOP-induced budget cut mean law enforcement is almost nonexistent in spots — so we might as well go for something that will put the cartels out of business, too.
Behind all these “drug cartels” are government operatives. Even the CIA is a drug dealer. I don’t think they are going to give it up because the public might want them to. As for the costs plummeting, have you seen the cost of cigarettes or alcohol that are taxed heavily in many countries? The cost continues to rise as governments milk these sin taxes for all they are worth.
If the cost rises then people will buy from their old dealers or grow their own. Simply really.
If there was no prohibition cannabis would be as cheap as tea, bud should not cost more than corn meal or flour! Today there is big profit, in them weeds!
Yeah, because prohibition makes so much more sense.
Went to a party the other night where smoke was available. N CA bud was $200.00 an ounce (so they said). The party had some home grown that was not so powerful. Most smokers had med licence and serious pain conditions. I don’t smoke but they said I was on a natural. Everything got really not serious. No hostilities or bad vibes were given and the pets were all laid back.
Geez…… sure is a lot of weed,but Mexican weed sucks.
Which is why it must remain illegal! We can’t have any of that mellow, non violent hippie shit going on!
It will ONLY hurt the cartels if the government grows it and distributes it. AND, sells it a near cost.
I move that Congress strike the word “marijuana” from all commerce and drug laws. Do I hear a second?
You know, treat it like they do Foxglove and other native medicinal plants.
Normally a law enforcement report consists of:
(1) A crime was committed against a person or persons, resulting in physical and/or financial damages and
(2) The perpetrator was captured.
In this case it’s:
(1) ———–
(2) Some plants were captured.
yikes, what about the cost in lives?
The Canadian ledain commission recommended legalisation in the sixties.
it was legal before it wasn’t. go back to the good old days.
60,000 pounds. Wholesale for Mexican is around $1,000 a pound, so that’s about $60M.
It’s impossible to say whether it was meant as a 1 month supply to the US distribution network or a lower (1 week?) or higher supply (3 months?). Definitely worth noting that it is harvest season, so supplies are higher.