Thunder Monkey
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Yeah, just think of all the Snickers you can buy with that.
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$1 billion in cocaine intercepted en route to U.S.
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Yeah, just think of all the Snickers you can buy with that.
OrangeGrayBlue
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13,000 pounds? Who measures coke in pounds?
The Elite
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USA!
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Thunder Monkey
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Listen you don't want to confuse an American with balloons of cocaine up their bums.
Gotta make sure lawyers cops and politicians are "cleaning up the streets". And that prisons are nice and full, and everyone's pocket is nice and full.
Although I will throw in fuck cocaine. Cocaine users tend to get god complexes.
Fenderputty
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It's all for show anyway. It's not like this bust will have any noticeable effect on useful metrics like lowered drug use or lowered violence related to drugs. It sure makes for a snappy headline and photo op though.
Morbid curiosity got the best of me a while back. All torture is horrible, but what they do makes waterboarding seem like bath time. The stories are worse.
valkillmore
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I'm guessing all of those privitized prisons in the states would be up in arms over the legalization of recreational drugs. I'm sure at least one of the operating companies behind them would lobby against this for the sole reason it would mean less criminals being sent through the system. Inmates = revenue.
Thunder Monkey
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I just did three or four lines and I'm fine you insignificant spec on the butthole of your betters!
The Lamonster
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shit should be legal.
And they've actually lobbied for harsher sentencing on petty drug offenders. It's been documented.
valkillmore
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Fuck me are you serious? I was posting that as a goof. This actually happened?
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Government creating scarcity again.
jacob armitage
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awe damnit.
good for them, drugs are bad mkay
KefkaPalazzo
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Too bad cocaine is usually consumed by white people.
valkillmore
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Unbelievable!!! What a total travesty. Pot, or any other recreational drug for that matter, is never going to be legalized on a federal level based on this.
Thunder Monkey
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Ooops, look like the popo made a mistake.
AllIsOneIsNone
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nobody would notice just one bag missing...
They give it back to the poor
Mister Negative
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Someone's probably pretty mad about this.
Thunder Monkey
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MisterNegative
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Could of been pure (75-90%) cocaine, ready to be fucked with when it hits the streets which would eventually cause its value to decrease.
I remember when a massive bust happened in the UK a few years back, they found a ferry with shitloads worth about £300 million/90% pure.
ahhh here it is.
http://http://swns.com/news/uk-border-agency-in-300-million-cocaine-bust-20924/
Its very numbing at first. The back of your face, throat and nose area goes all numb before you feel the fun effects.
VARIA
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The Abominable Snowman
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Who gets their coke from Ecuador?
I guess if you're looking for the bad shit to flip cheap. I'd never snort from somewhere south of the US.
I guess if you're looking for the bad shit to flip cheap. I'd never snort from somewhere south of the US.
Indrid Cold1
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Fuck will that bust drive up the price of an eighth or what? I've got a... friend... who asked me to find out ya see. Ahem.
This. Tax it, use the taxes to fund drug treatment programs/health care, continue to discourage its use, in the same way that tobacco and (to a much less extent, unfortunately) alcohol are discouraged. There would still be testing for jobs were being high puts other people's lives at direct risk (transportation, construction, etc.).
So stupid to let the cartels get away with all this money.
My guess is that it'll never happen though: the police need an easy excuse to harass people and the incarceration and public safety industry makes too much money from the war on drugs.
it will just anger the drug lords and the price will go down
In a lot of the drug discussions here a lot of people brung this up, but they fail to realize that once its legalized its business as usual for the cartels. I don't think they'll stop stop selling drugs once its legal, once its legal they no longer have to smuggle the drugs and their business will be as profitable because the money spent to smuggle will instead be used to pay government tax, if they choose to pay at all.
Ace Harding
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Is this a joke? Where do coca plants grow and get processed north of the U.S.?
This is a joke. Shit.
JakOfTheShadows
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Prostitutes? Coke will get you models.
with legal weed?
Except they won't be as profitable due to corporate competition. I'm sure there will be a huge difference in quality. Corporations will have the logistics, marketing, and quality that will simply swallow the cartel's market share and force them into pushing other drugs to compensate for lost revenue, but it will be futile because their main cash cow is marijuana. Billion-dollar industry right there into organized crime. Taking 50% of their revenue is a huge blow.
So the cocaine business is small ?
BruiserBear
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Still makes me laugh
Lamel
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Nah.
The same thing they do with the legal ones that have no other use than to fuck up your shit.
Regulate and tax.
Thunder Monkey
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Rather have prostitutes after the last model OD'd.
Escape Goat
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Sorry, canada. Your political system is sure to fail now without this shipment.
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