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Thursday, October 8, 2015

The Fly-Wheels weekly drug bust roundup

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat

A ton and a half of Marijuana confiscated in Juarez



Location: Juarez
Drug: Marijuana
Weight: 1.7 tonnes
Discovery: Safe House

The Secretary of Public Municipal Security, arrested and detained two alleged narco traffickers when they arrived at a safe house, where they had 1.7 tonnes of Marijuana and various rifles. The list included a .40 grenade launcher, an Uzi 9mm and a revolver, in one of the vehicles used by the suspects, they found a further 200 rounds of AK47 ammunition. The subjects were identified as Francisco Javier Amaro Ortiz and Jamie Arrieta Bustillos, 22 and 36 years old respectively.

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170 kilos of Cocaine seized in Manzanillo



Location: Manzanillo, Colima
Drug: Cocaine
Weight: 168.5 Kilos
Discovery: Chinese registered ship

Elements of the Marina and the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) confiscated 168.5 kilos of Cocaine in the port of Manzanillo, Colima, the drugs were found inside four bags inside a ship which had embarked from Peru and was sailing under a Chinese flag.




1 tonne of Marijuana and 356,000 USA dollars



Location: Plutarco Elias Calles, Sonora
Drug: Marijuana
Weight: 1 tonne
Discovery: a coach belonging to Autobuses of the Pacific

Elements of Sedena searched a coach belonging to Autobuses of the Pacific in San Emeterio, located in the town of Plutarco Elias Calles, Sonoara. The discovered under the passenger stairs american currency to the value of $365,000.

Also in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, stopped a vehicle marked "freightliner" which appeared to be transporting cement in bags, the interior of the bags were searched and 1.2 tonnes of Marijuana was discovered.

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42 kilos of Crystal Meth in papaya shipment



Location: Opodepe, Sonora
Drug: Crystal Meth
Weight: 42 kilos
Discovery: Transported in loads of Papaya

Sedena informed that on October the 3rd, elements of the Army In Opodepe, Sonora, arrested two men involved in smuggling Crystal Meth inside of Papaya deliveries in Kenworth trucks. The men, drugs, and vehicles were put at the disposition of Agents of the Federal Ministry.

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Half a tonne of Marijuana



Location: Los Mochis, Sinaloa
Drug: Marijuana
Weight: 485 kilos
Discovery: Tahoe pickup


Elements of the 89th Infantry Battalion, confiscated 485 kilos of Marijuana wrapped in 48 packets in a Tahoe pickup truck, the vehicle was discovered  between the communities of El Limon and Vallecitos.

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2 tonnes of Marijuana



Location: Mazatlan, Sinaloa
Drug: Marijuana
Weight: 2095 kilos ( 2 tonnes)
Discovery: In an abandoned truck

Elements of the Army found a truck abandoned on a Sinaloa highway leading from Mazatlán, on inspection it was loaded with baby milk powder. The drugs were hidden inside the boxes of dried milk.

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Cocaine and Marijuana seized at Juarez/El Paso crossing



Location: Ciudad Juarez/El Paso border crossing
Drug: Cocaine and Marijuana
Weight: 48 packages of cocaine, 291 bales of Marijuana
Discovery: Vehicles
Value:  $2,000,000

Officials of the Office of Customs and Frontier Protection discovered cocaine and marijuana in three separate vehicles crossing the frontier worth 2,000,000 dollars. The drugs seized included coca paste.

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23 tonnes of Marijuana seized in Sinaloa



Location:Las Higueritas, Sinaloa
Drug: Marijuana and Crystal Meth
Weight: 23 tonnes of Marijuana, 10 kilos of Crystal Meth
Discovery: Bodega
Value: 23,000,000 pesos or 1.4 million dollars US

Military elements discovered the haul inside a trailer in a Bodega in the community of Las Higueritas, Sinaloa. The Military also confiscated 8 weapons and 22 magazines of different calibers.

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65 lbs of Crystal Meth seized at Lincoln - Juarez Bridge



Location: Laredo, Texas
Drug: Crystal meth
Weight: 65 lbs
Discovery: Vehicle
Value: 1.3 million dollars US

Officials of the Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) intercepted on the Texas side of the Juarez - Lincoln bridge, a shipment of Crystal Meth valued at 1.3 million dollars US. The drugs were discovered after a search of a Durango Van driven by a 20 year old woman from Nuevo Leon.

Otis: If you look at this seizure and the seizure prior to this, its a wonder anyone bothers shipping marijuana north anymore. Both shipments have the same value, except the meth could be carried by one man at a weight of 65 pounds, the other would have to be moved in an articulated truck. If you compare CJNG and CDS, CJNG and Los Cuinis ship much more meth North of the border hence the latest data showing CJNG and Los Cuinis as the richest of the current cartels, with the real money for Sinaloa coming from Heroin and Cocaine shipments.

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Article written with Spanish material from Proceso, Milenio, Zetatijuana, El Debate, and BCS Noticias.

84 comments:

  1. Shitloads of bud getting busted.

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    1. Quality sensImilla is bought for 200 mxn ($11-12USD) per kilo in the mountains of Sinaloa and maybe 50 pesos more in the cities along Carretera 15 from Nayarit to Los Mochis. In any U.S. border town a kilo will sell for $300 and 15-20% more once it is past customs border patrol check point. How does a 30,000% gross markup not make Mexican millionaires? Buying a commodity in pesos and selling in dollars (close to 17 peso per dollar) they are getting rich from exchange rate change alone. Even with the bulkiness the risk reward selling wholesale is much better than other options.

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    2. Isnt it marijuana harvest season-Oct?Explains why theres so much.

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    3. @4:25 - Claro que si. Compa - sabes que tu negocio muy bien...sinaloense no?

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    4. 4:25 all the grifa in the w orld may make some little chapo grade drug trafficker a billionaire, at least a millionaire, BUT DRUGS ARE NOT THEIR PROPERTY TO MAKE ALL THE LITTLE NARCOS MILLIONAIRES...
      ALL THE KICKBACKS, PLAZA, PISO, MORDIDAS AND MISCELLANEOUS FEES barely leave the troops enough for maruchan, gunnery fees and gasoline to go and murder the competition to steal their little table droppings...
      --All the classic capitalist exploitation schemery, the worthless rabble make no money, "they don't deserve it because they do not better themselves in harvard or MIT" they are not even a paratrooper like General Manuel Noriega...
      --he murdered his Godfather General Omar Torrijos and went on to make untold billions on the side, unleashing the ires of the Panamanian invaders that brung his nasty ass down to prison...

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    5. A kilo of coca leaves in Colombia runs between one and half pesos and three pesos....

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    6. 9:41 yep,yep and yip, yip, the farmers never in their whole life see good money unless they market their own produce, but the police and the narcs will know right away who done cheated them and guess what? It is game over for them...
      --Marketing giniuses are the ones that get all the money always...

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    7. Same with the legal farmers too no different.I read a week ago in my rural newspaper a wheat farmer only makes 18 cents on a loaf of bread and then has all the weather risks,hail,frost etc.Yes you can get crop insurance but doesn't cover your potential profits only reimburses cost of your seeds and fertilizer and not your labour.

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  2. thats a whole year worth of seizures in most major countries

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  3. Mr guzman will not be happy about this..

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    1. Yes he will they will take pictures for the Americas and he'll picki t up later

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    2. Ha Ha probably true.

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  4. Heroin, Crystal, Cocaine the three main btches making cartel goons millionares, from flipping burgers to flipping chipps....the thing is which of those is the most popular among dope junkies? By that i mean in numbers of tonnes consumed each year in all the US?? An answer that not even btch CIA knows about....Mission impossible for the bastards....Ssstrryykke four ! you'rrreee outt ! outta the US hellraises! !

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    1. @6:18 maaan, you are high on your own hairball, maybe you should have washed it first...

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    2. Heroina vs cristal vs cocaina- seriously??? WAY more kilos de cocaina is used in USA en that is why los carteles de Mexico love cristale - they own supply and no have to compete with los Hations, Dominicans, Columbians, Jamacains, gringos and other that bring cocaina y heroina to USA everyday by ship to every ports and every aeroport international in USA. Powder and rock Is used everywhere in USA by people rich and poor and sold in every neighborhood and kilo de cocaina is cheep many places. Cristal price de kilo stay high and turn money fastest.

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    3. @6:18, "Cómo la vez ball?" (Line "borrowed" from Él Señor de los Cielos).

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    4. 3:50 no entiende... me no watch no movies ni novels, sorry...
      Te quiero mucho, mua, mua...

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    5. Crystal meth poor mans cocaine

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    6. Uh-uh, 1:44 PM, like crack, crystal meth is cheaper by the rock, but it's way nastier than cocaine. Cokeheads have a better chance of rehabilitation and staying in recovery than meth addicts do. Meth tweakers chances are next to none. Meth tweaking puts users at risk for Hep-C and HIV and OD. Meth is a death sentence.

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    7. --One 7.00 dollar hit meth, work all day at 100mph
      --Cocaine, think "you are all that" for one hour, at work and at home
      --Heroin, relax, sleep, run to the crapper, go find 10.00 usd or mug someone for it and score, no time to find a rewarding job, end up killing for a next dose, but get the runs all day
      --Crack, 2.00 usd per burn, repeat every 10 minutes, smell like shit, run to the crappr, repeat dose until you run outta money, mug someone for the next day's doses...
      --Why do drugs, and vices that you can not support, and drive you to hook everybody in your family and friends, just to support your crapppy ass vice?
      And then you are bitching about legality to deal with impunity...not!!!

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    8. Krokodil, so good it does not matter if it eats it's fans from the inside until they are left with just the living bare bones, cheap, easy to make, kills you in about 2 years, what is not to like? Then there are the bath salts...natgeo/drugs inc...
      Hagigat, israeli designer's drugs,
      --China provided codeine precursors of designers drugs and meth, much cheaper than opiates, but whatever the customer wants, China still obliges after more than 300 years in the business, that is how england, a country without mining, cattle, agro or oilgets to be so rich, mining other countries for their all...

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  5. Is alwyas the cheap crap they bust. That devil weed, that shouldn't be even called marihuana. It should be called garbage. Cannabis is the real marihuana not that shiet'

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    1. haha I know. I really dont know anyone who would buy that weed from mexico. White people grow the best weed

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    2. Obviously someone moves that "cheap crap" for somebody that obviously know what they want...
      --high brow elite aristocraps would not know other than their steroids and GMO altered states...

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    3. I smoke Mexican weed but its only Acapulco Gold. The rest is garbage.

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  6. Otis,

    Are you saying the CJNG is making more money than the Sinaloa Cartel?

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    1. They just get caught more often, they are not approved for business or have a license to kill from the people "that matter", but el mugueladas is said to have paid about 70 million dollars for his, to the COMPAÑIA...
      --it may be true, the competition has been cleaned out...

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    2. There have been several reports in the press to that effect. Do I know that for certain? no its all speculation unless you work for the Dept of the Treasury.
      I would say almost 100% that CJNG ships more meth to USA than Sinaloa does. Is Meth worth many times what marijuana is pound for pound? also yes.
      Sinaloa cornered the heroin market in the US since WW2, and they ship a lot of cocaine, which is all worth more than meth per kilo. So based on logic, no CJNG don't earn more per year than Sinaloa. But earning more per year and being the richest cartel are two different things.

      To quantify a persons worth you would have to take into account all of their assets, including property and businesses. I think the Sinaloa setup is well known and studied, CJNG less so as they have only existed for a fraction of the time that Sinaloa has.

      I think that mencho operating with Los Cuinis, are similar to Mayo, and less like Chapo. Not courting publicity when it doesn't serve the cartel.

      I think who has most money is a fluid situation depending on what businesses have been targeted by USA sanctions.

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    3. otis is respect your reporting a whole lot. trust me. you do a great job.
      but honestly i dont think that cjng ships more meth to the US..
      the Sinaloa Cartel has their own recipe for meth. and from everything i have ever read or heard about its the sinaloa cartel that dominates everything in the US market. and as far as cjng making more money than the sinaloa cartel that could be true. only because cjng dominates the european market.. and with the european market comes far less intercepted drug shipments/cash shipments ect.. its like a 99% chance the load wont be intercepted.. whereas in the US market that the sinaloa cartel dominates they have a lot higher rate of drug shipments/cash shipments getting intercepted.. so yeah thats probley why the cjng probley makes and has more money than the sinaloa cartel.. but also like otis said you never really can know for sure.. and if i had to bet who makes more money i would have to lean towards the Sinaloa Cartel..

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    4. Sinaloa has Los Angeles Los callejones and pa Vegas they supply all the blacks with Coke to make crack Sinaloa filled Eastcoast streets wit heroin Chicago with lots of Coke and the west mid west is just straight crystal meth the marijuana stops at the border of Canada and US then it head to Alaska where everything triples up I know this because I know a few transporters for people in Mexicali and Tijuana mayos people is out and probably moving more than ever

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    5. Thanks, that explains these very complicated things with thinking I can understand.

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    6. Kickbacks to rogue agents do not move through regular banking Channels, that is one of the problems that help all kinds of sociopaths and psycho bills to carry on with screwing the peoples.
      --We still do not know how much MONEY THE IRANI GOVERNMENT PAID TO ISRAEL FOR THE AMERICAN WEAPONS property of the US government or what became of said money, it did not go to the contras, that's for sure
      --Iran had no money, so it had to have paid with oil, sold in the
      blackmarkets in high seas, at very cheap prices (Marc Rich had to be presidential pardoned by clinton at the past minute for some of it) but there is no way anybody can prove any of it, there are the suspicious unexplainable fortunes of those involved, their peaceful enjoyment and our suspicions that there must be something there generating all that smell, the US treasury is selective and self censoring

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  7. Chivis!!!
    Can someone tell me what is the Beef between Damaso people and los Antrax ? Did Damaso and Chino antrax get along ?

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    1. Chino anthrax never liked mini lic

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    2. also damaso has no respect for the mayos sons.
      none of them.

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    3. Why not what was there Beef ?

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    4. Rumors are that mini lic invited chino and all his people to a party and stuff got outta hand and guns were pulled....

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  8. Lol someone is paying taxes to pass there loads

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  9. Chivis Martinez, for some strange no particular reason I just wanted to write your name...

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    1. Chivis martinez ain't even her name, and it's a 20yr old kid from laredo, tx dude just so you know, wanna - be computer worm lol.

      Cheers chivis. 🍻

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    2. 11:22 Yeh, i'm a jealous, too, i's gonna buy me a black carpet bib too and a water pistol to at least show how much I try to look half muy macho...naaah...
      Nice to meet blo'...

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  10. What ever happened to buzzkill?

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    1. Talkn bout the tacuachon --Millie the conspirator? ..... lol !

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  11. The reason marijuana is still shipped is because they are growing the kush strainsbfor the dispenseries as well. Why do u think there hasnt been a war or all out assult on these dispenseries. You think the son of the biggest supplier of marijuana in the world would buy from a competitor? Stop all the bullshit about mexican weed sucks...its all from mexico if its smoked in the us. Yes its native to afganistan. Its bred in california. But its grown in mexico. Cultivated. Cut. Then shipped from mexico. Into those floresant blue or clear green pill bottles here in costa mesa.

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    1. "It's all from Mexico". ..? Just plain wrong, lay off the bong.

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    2. You are out of your mind. 90% of the marijuana smoked in OC and LA county are grown in OC and LA county. I used to grow for years, as did many friends. We feed the dispensaries. There's no reason to grow in Mexico - its 100% legal here!

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    3. I beg to differ. You cant drive a quarter mile in rural Northern California right now without smelling it.

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  12. LMAO. I cannot stop laughing re: this fantasy about 'trainwreck' having it's roots in Afganistan. Take a trip to Canada and see where much of the bud comes from.

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    1. @11:30AM--Fuckin' A right, eh? Cheers.

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  13. I haven't smoked mexican weed in 10 years, it's not all from mexico. I get California and Oregon grown anytime I want. It is way better than that nasty tasting mexican dirt weed.

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  14. cdj's drugs got busted

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  15. holy mole !!! who where why ?? O..thats right Americans are potheads . cokeheads. methheads.crackheads. keep the wheels turnin

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  16. Kush doesnt come from mexico, its grown in cali,oregon, Washington, AZ, Colorado and sent via courier services all over the US

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    1. Real Kush is Afghani, tho super scarce, you can SOMETIMES find it in Scandinavia or a few cities in Europe if you know whom to ask. What's marketed as Kush in the Americas is high-test, expensive, but not the same. Think 1970's Thai weed X 10 with lucid highs lasting for 12-14 hours, that's Afghani Kush. American Kush is a 2-3 hours' buzz, max. Weed's weed--grow your own!

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  17. Got cousin in cosala, Sinaloa and he says the past few days there has been a bunch of gun fights with la marina and armed groups including 3 type of aircrafts of la marina being brought down... Any reports?

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    1. Harvests coming down from lago comedero

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    2. ¡Que pelicula! Operation Get Shorty lll

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  18. Has anyone heard about the shootout around las milpas Durango its near cosala Sinaloa...people are saying the guachos went after chapo and all hell broke loose 2 choppers got dropped and a lot of casualties on both sides...this happened yesterday

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  19. Come on people, these are no drug busts.....they put this out there to demonstrate to the USA that the money we send over there is being well spent.....lmao the mexican govt. Been fucking ours for the longest....the sinaloa will always be richer...heroin surpasses any profit margin meth or coke could ever bring.....one key of pure heroin brings seven kilos cut to streets sales and cut is mandatory or you kill your customers....did youll notice the high number on heroin seizures.....none...

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    1. It can also be worst profit margin if confiscated because it requires many hectares de poppy to make heroina and requires many hours to achieve enough gum to create a kilo de heroina. Very high risk to investment and is why carried in small quantities compared to other contraband you say

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  20. You guys ever think maybe they send purposely the bad shit over to get busted that way it can be a decoy for all the good shit to get crossed over?

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  21. Does anyone know if the marijuana grown in Sinaloa is quite a bit better than any of the other weed grown in all other parts of Mexico? I heard that the weed grown in the Sinaloan mountains is the best as far as Mexican weed goes?

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  22. Why do they even bother seizing weed anymore hey I am in Canada we are about to elect a new Prime Minister next month who is going to legalize it just like some US states already. I am on my way to Mexico on Saturday when I get there I am smoking a big fat joint

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    1. It is NOT legal until the laws are approved, the licences are approved and PAID FOR,
      the dispensaries must be clean and licensed too, the doctors need their licences and be approved too, at the end, there will be no customers for the "real expensive mota"

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    2. You must be a Liberal voting for pretty boy Justin Trudeau.His father was Prime Minister in the 70s.

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    3. Trudeau is the best you got on offer, Canadiana! Elizabeth May's the smartest candidate of the party leaders, but the Greens tend to do poorly in Canada. Your Harperites and Canada's NDP can't cut it this time around, either. Mind you, the Ontario Liberals are complete arsewholes, but the Federal Libs do have some useful talents that Canadians could do well by. Pierre Elliott Trudeau was one of the handful of statesman the 20th century produced. Pierre Trudeau is the father of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which much to the House of Windsor's disgust, gave Canada the legal rights to legislate its own laws. Prior to, proposed Canadian laws had to get approved by British parliament before these could take effect. Justin speaks, thinks and writes in both of Canada's official languages--his español aint castellano, but he is a fluent speaker. He won't fuck up.

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    4. Pierre Trudeau is said to have enjoyed smoking hash from time to time, as well as an occasional pot cookie.

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  23. Its all about chiwas kush. Thats the good shit in Juarez floating right now!!!

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  24. IN SOME OTHER NEWS from the south...... Jaime Rodriguez Calderon alias "el bronco ratero" & associates is stealing away Nuevo Leons future milliones de pesetas at a time. (( lloll )) ....All with help from the Getaz tetaz from there I suppost. Some body do the good educated peoples from that nice state a faver... & blow that mathaphaka upp'. upp'. & at the same time why not send to hell his most close associates with him too.

    Another coahuila ezcenario.? Here the link: www.narcoprensa.com/2015/10/la-delincuencia-arriba-al-poder-en.html?m=1

    Yer welcome mothaphakas (( lloll ))

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  25. So there's this story in Atlanta that some black from a certain project hit a lick on some cartel affiliated mexicans for a million dollars worth of product. Does anyone know if there's any truth to this?

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    1. who knows but best believe if this true and they find out who it was they will be dealt with mexico style

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    2. 4:35 AM, "Hit a lick" means they jacked the product, with the plan being to sell it back to who it was stolen from?? Or, hit a lick is short hand for "busted," or causing a fatality?? It's a new one for me, sorry!

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    3. Hit a lick means it was just jacked

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    4. Thanks, 10:53 AM! :-) Much appreciated, I really didn't have a clue.

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  26. Hey fedex me a few bales of that mx "garbage" weed and I will happily give you an evaluation of it's quality!

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    1. 5:17 AM, "One man's garbage is another man's treasure!" (It can't be that awful, Mexico's barreto biz seems to have raked in millions by the limo load from its so called "garage" pot. If, memory serves, the bragging rights to "seedless," sin semilla belong to a couple of hermanos out of Sinaloa, Mexico...).

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  27. You must be new alot of weed is grown in california by many mexicans asians whites its all business

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  28. 8:38 the best weed is from la Sierra de chihuahua!

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  29. i thought my papayas tasted funny the other day.

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  30. I don't get why CDS don't just swap all their weed crops in La Sierra for more opium so then they can make more profit by selling heroin. Is the processing of opium into heroin very expensive?

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    1. China and Afghanistan ship it all ready to market, why beat around the bush?
      In mexico there is a little, all for show to blame all of mexico for all of it...
      The pushers just have to cut it to dumbed down grams.

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  31. Why don't people buy their prescription pain meds in mexico and bring them to the US like they do every other drug? I mean even though they ship heroin north its still a huge market in the US for pain meds.. Are they hard to get in mexico or expensive or something??

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