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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...na-goes-smoke/
Confiscated Mexican marijuana goes up in smoke
TIJUANA — Nearly 296,000 pounds of marijuana went up in thick dark clouds of smoke Wednesday in Tijuana, three days after municipal police chanced upon a caravan of trucks that led them to the historic seizure.
Bugles blared, drums rolled and the Mexican flag was unfurled as armed soldiers, civilian officials and others gathered to witness the lighting of the massive pile.
The seizure has brought international attention and is being showcased as a success story in President Felipe Calderón’s hard-fought battle against drug-trafficking groups in Mexico. The 15,000 wrapped bundles of pot represent the largest-ever seizure of marijuana already packaged for sale and distribution to date in Mexico, federal authorities said.
“Citizens should be proud of their authorities and of their armed forces,” Gen. Alfonso Duarte Múgica, commander of Baja California’s Second Military Zone, said as huge orange flames leaped into the air at a military base. “We are going to continue obtaining these kinds of results against organized crime.”
According to Mexican federal authorities, the quan y represents more than 52 million individual doses of pot. Officials have offered widely varying estimates of the street value in the United States and Mexico. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said that quan y would yield more than $103 million in U.S. street value, based on the low-end pricing for Mexican marijuana.
Peter Reuter of the University of Maryland said the usual method for valuing a seizure is the cost it imposes on smugglers — currently about $400 a pound. But, he added, “the retail price is massively higher,” closer to $2,500 a pound.
Mexico’s military authorities initially estimated a smaller seizure of 230,000 pounds in 10,000 packages. They revised those figures Wednesday to the almost 296,000 pounds wrapped in 15,000 packages.
Authorities in Baja California have revealed little about the origin of the packages, only saying that they appear to have been brought up from southern Mexico in small quan ies by land, sea and air. Duarte said that the investigation is ongoing.
Alejandro Poiré, Mexico’s security spokesman, said Tuesday in Mexico City that “there are indications” suggesting that the drugs belonged to the “Organization of the Pacific,” a term for the Sinaloa drug-trafficking organization.
Duarte said the marijuana had been ac ulating in clandestine storage facilities for some time, as increased vigilance has made it difficult for traffickers to move it through Tijuana and smuggle it to the United States.
The discovery of the marijuana occurred late Sunday, as municipal police on patrol near Tijuana’s central bus station happened on a convoy that opened fire. Calling for reinforcements, the officers found three truckloads of marijuana and were led to a lot in another neighborhood where they found more than 176,000 pounds stashed in six trailers. They later found smaller quan ies hidden inside two residences in western Tijuana and Rosarito Beach.
Eleven suspects remained in custody Wednesday in connection with the seizure. Police sources have identified one of them as Jorge Alberto Avelar Ruiz, whose brother, Jose Avelar Ruiz, president of Tijuana’s Conventions and Tourism Commitee.
In a statement issued Wednesday, Avelar said his brother was detained Monday by state authorities when he went to report the theft of one of his company’s vehicles.
Jose Avelar said his brother supports his family by operating a legitimate business, “a working person known in the Tijuana community ... who became the victim of a car theft that was used by criminals. This has placed him in a painful and deplorable situation.”
The burning comes less than two weeks before California voters go to the polls to vote on Proposition 19, a ballot measure that would legalize marijuana possession within certain limits. Rosarito Beach Mayor Hugo Torres, among the witnesses to the burning, expressed concern about the initiative’s potential effects in Baja California.
“If it’s legalized in California and not legalized here, border areas are going to be strongly affected and many lives will be at risk without necessity,” he said. “It will be very difficult to persuade police and the military to keep making an effort and risking their lives to ensure that drugs don’t reach a market where there are no controls.”
So, so stupid. Just picture it...bunch of military tough guys gathering and attempting to be bad ass, standing around a massive, burning pile of lettuce, essentially..Compared to what the law thinks it's controlling, marijuana is nothing even close to this nonsense, probably more beneficial to our current society than negative. ====> Lettuce
Not only are they wasting a bunch of time and money on a war to burn "lettuce"....they are essentially burning away HUGE amounts of money. Can't wait til the governments of the world look back in a few years and see just how ing stupid their actions were, like prohibition, especially considering marijuana is nowhere remotely close to being as destructive as alcohol.
Truly pathetic.
Go after the real destructive drugs you enormous, gaping vaginas.
Look at this tough guy:
sons of es!!!
Wheres mouse? I bet he's extremley high now.
its about cutting the funding to the cartels, not getting rid of marijuana. Which is still stupid, 'cause that would be much better accomplished by legalizing and taxing it.
"Dumbasses"
.....but first, we are going to hit up Taco Bell to take care of these munchies“Citizens should be proud of their authorities and of their armed forces,” Gen. Alfonso Duarte Múgica, commander of Baja California’s Second Military Zone, said as huge orange flames leaped into the air at a military base. “We are going to continue obtaining these kinds of results against organized crime....”
It's DIRECTLY about getting rid of the marijuana, and indirectly about cutting funding. They're interested in cutting funding because marijuana is illegal..which is their decision, and the fact that it is illegal creates the cartels' power. They're creating their own problem. Cartels wouldn't be in the marijuana business if it were legal, so at its heart it's about the lettuce itself.
I love marijuana but hate huge illegal drug cartels, people should go for the legal medicinal stuff or at the very least a peaceful local grower than some huge black market operation.
People would buy from that peaceful local grower if his weed wasn't 20 to 30 dollars a gram for some good dro. People will continue to buy and seek Mexican brick weed because it's way cheaper than the high grade stuff, and it gets you high. The best way to beat the cartels is if they decriminalize/legalize it on a national level.
I definitely won't, that.
i don't even remember the last time i smoked mexican press, shwag, whatever you wanna call it. , i don't even know anyone these days that deals with that .
but yes, prices of good bud is ridiculous and it seems as though people are charging high prices even if the is bunk. in' ridiculous!
Taco Bell in Mexico?
Maybe not you Al, since you probably come from well off family, but the majority of poor/middle class Americans will continue to demand it until it's legalized in the good ole U.S. of A!.
pffft. that's like asking "KFC in Kentucky"?Taco Bell in Mexico?
yes, you fail to see taco bell cracks are just as lame as kfc ones.
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