Large pot siezure south of Why

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U.S. Border Patrol agents have seized nearly three tons of marijuana in two separate stops along the Arizona-Mexico border.
About 2,500 pounds of pot, with a street value approaching $2 million, was found Wednesday after agents working south of Why spotted an altered pickup truck near the border. As agents approached, the driver fled into Mexico. Agents inspected the vehicle and found numerous bundles of marijuana. Registration checks showed the vehicle was stolen.
Later Wednesday, a Border Patrol canine team working at the Aqua Linda Checkpoint, alerted to a tractor-trailer carrying watermelons. Agents discovered several bundles containing 3,200 pounds of marijuana hidden in the watermelons. The street value was estimated at $2.5 million. In fiscal year 2009, agents assigned to the Tucson Sector Border Patrol have seized more than 830,000 pounds of marijuana, a record.
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At least they weren't throwing the bales out on the road this time.

 

[m4shawn]

What a waste of a lot of perfectly good pot. It will be decades but I hope some politician has the balls to really push for legalization one day. So many reasons why marijuana's illegality is just stupid.

 

[ernesto]

I remember having a large pot seizure myself during my college days

 

[beachgirl]

Couldn't have said it better m4shawn!!

 

[BeachMom]

What a waste of a lot of perfectly good pot. It will be decades but I hope some politician has the balls to really push for legalization one day. So many reasons why marijuana's illegality is just stupid.

Amen to that!

 

[m4shawn]

:smile: And you know some will assume we feel like pot should be legal because we're all stoners ("Are you a pothead, Fokker?")
Not so.
1) It's a waste of money, resources, court time and jail space to pursue, prosecute and incarcerate marijuana users. It's just, in a word: GAY. A waste of precious law enforcement resources. GA-AY!
2) The taxes that could be gathered on the legal sale of pot, as with cigarettes and alcohol, are just squandered - what a waste.
3) An entire illegal industry replent with violence is perpetuated. Make pot legal and you immediately dismantle the black market and all the crime that accompanies it by the natural order of free market capitalism. It's OK... really! Anyone ever heard of the 18th Ammendment? The story of Prohibition and organized crime?
4) Bud Light is not only legal, it's positively All American to have one in yer fist - it's a part of ballgames and picnics and clebrations and weddings!
The point: it's a giant, hot, stinking load of hypocrisy that Costco and Safeway have giant sales displays of 12 packs of Miller Lite, and that huge portions of our economy run solely on Happy Hour and Karaoke night and the wine list..... but marijuana is verbodden.

If you want to advocate abstinence of any mind altering substance, I respect that - may not agree, but at least you are consistent in the philosophy.
But to make a distinction and OK the all American drug: alcohol, and villify happy little Pot is a farce, and hypocritical.
Trust me: a room full of drinkers is far more unpredictable than a room full of tokers. Ain't no mean or nasty or depressed or wild-ass smokers; they're all mellow and friendly and just hungry.

 

[beachgirl]

Hey Shawn, you left out one last thing--they're also laughing hesterically over the antics of the drinkers!!

 

[Kenny]

Now that might be a bit of a stretch

they're all mellow and friendly and just hungry

Now that might be a bit of a stretch, but overall, I'd say you get it.

Kenny

 

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Large Pot Seizure

One of our neighbors in Las Conchas told us there was a large bale of pot that washed up directly in front of our house last summer (you know, our house that has been taken over by our former maintenance company owner). What a coincidence!!!