What happens when we purchase and consume billions of dollars of illegal drugs! I hear that it could be $20 billion annually!
First, there are personal consequences for the individuals consuming or smoking the stuff.
Second, demand is so high that our suppliers look for ways to supply us.
On a scale of 1 to 10, the Mexican cartels get a 10 for building underground tunnels, as we just learned from a Reuters story:
"U.S. federal agents have uncovered two drug-smuggling tunnels underneath the U.S.-Mexico border, both surfacing in San Diego-area warehouses and equipped with rail systems for moving contraband, officials said on Friday.
The discovery led to the arrest of a 73-year-old woman accused of running one of the warehouses connected to a drug smuggling operation, according to a joint news release by four federal agencies.
The tunnels were discovered as part of a five-month investigation by the so-called San Diego Tunnel Task Force.
Federal law enforcement officials said the first tunnel, which connects a warehouse in Tijuana, Mexico, with one in an industrial park in the border community of Otay Mesa, is about 600 yards long and is furnished with lighting, a crude rail system and wooden trusses."
This is rather remarkable accomplishment, i.e. an underground tunnel of this size and potential! However, we want the "stuff" and are willing to pay for it.
Furthermore, these tunnels support the "national security" angle of a porous border. Couldn't terrorists also use these tunnels?
Furthermore, these tunnels support the "national security" angle of a porous border. Couldn't terrorists also use these tunnels?
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