Holiday Weekend Haul: Tons of Dope
By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 | 10:16 AM
By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 | 10:16 AM
The U.S. economy may be teetering on the brink of recession, but the marijuana market seems to be going strong. In just one four-day period, from last Friday to Monday, the Border Patrol in the Tucson Sector seized 9,121 pounds of weed, with an estimated street value of more than $7 million.
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The few comments about legalizing drugs has been tried before. Were any of you alive in the 70's??????
It's not the government's fault, it's us and our breatheren American people. We cannot seem to agree on it as a whole enough to support generating a proposal to legalize it.
How the hell can we legalize dope when we cannot even agree on leaving the Pledge of Allegence in our schools??????
U.S. Government should tax and price illegal drugs at a ridiculous rate and legalize it. Less people would do it, less people would afford it and we would stop wasting money on "trying" to traffic it.
Anonymous | Thursday, November 15, 2007 | 02:23 PMI believe that marijuana that is coming from the other side of the border because the people on the other side are actually hungry and they know how much americans love ganja and you know what that is ok a cash crop never hurt anyone
Peter griffen | Thursday, November 15, 2007 | 11:54 AMBut, what about the folks who need to ease their pain, or retirees who just want to relax?
kmp | Thursday, November 15, 2007 | 10:25 AMI say that any amount of drugs that can be stopped is great for the BP or any other lawenforcement agency that stops the delivery. Great Job folks. Keep it up!
Tucson Civ | Thursday, November 15, 2007 | 10:13 AMAmerica will never stop illegal drugs on the supply side and it is really pointless to try and stop the incoming tide. The only thing that interdiction on the supply side affects is the price point on the demand curve. Drugs are as embedded in the American culture and as resistant to price changes as gasoline. If America really wants to stop drug abuse, it must work on the demand side of the equation, not the supply side. Of course, a much more rational path would be to legalize, tax and regulate currently illegal drugs. Not only would America avoid the hundreds of billions of dollars drained from government funds in the War on Drugs every year, it would turn the extremely negative cash flow into a positive cash flow from taxes. The War on Drugs is doomed to fail in the long run. Our leaders just don't understand the reality. Even with our governments committing huge amounts of resources to stopping illegal drugs and restricting controlled substances, illegal drugs or controlled substances continue to be readily available at relatively cheap prices just about everywhere, including America's favorite drug dealing location: the local pharmacy.
Johnnie Nichols | Thursday, November 15, 2007 | 08:40 AMLike most government agencies, we are reactive instead of proactive.
JAJ | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 | 06:40 PMAt the end of the day, our current process is not preventing drugs from entering our schools, our prisons and our lives.
US | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 | 10:46 AMABOUT THIS BLOG
Government Executive Editor Tom Shoop takes a look at news and events affecting the federal bureaucracy, from the perspective of a longtime observer of government.
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