Posted on 03/01/2013 10:40:48 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Hundreds of thousands of kilograms (pounds) of cocaine are seized en route to the U.S. every year, and the Defense Department estimates about 850 metric tons of cocaine departed South America last year toward the U.S., down 20 percent in just a year. The most recent U.S. survey found cocaine use fell significantly, from 2.4 million people in 2006 to 1.4 million in 2011.
... Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield, head of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs said the goal is to make it so hard for traffickers to move drugs to the U.S. that they will eventually opt out of North America, where cocaine use is falling. Traffickers would likely look for easier, more expanding markets, shifting sales to a growing customer base in Europe, Africa and elsewhere in the world.
Brownfield said almost all Peruvian and Bolivian cocaine goes east through Brazil and Argentina and then to Western Europe. Cocaine that reaches North America mostly comes from Colombia, he said, with U.S. figures showing production falling sharply, from 700 metric tons in 2001 to 195 metric tons today
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You mean, “Seize Drugs and Resell Them Program”. I have talked to more than just a few DEA agents, Border Patrol officers, CIA case officers, and Mexican federales and it’s no drug war; that’s just the public message that the administrations have wanted you to believe. I’ll just leave it there.
I still remember the first time I heard the media reporting on cocaine—I believe it was back in 1984. They said it was a non-addictive alternative to heroin.
No more dot bomb wunderkinder to sell blow to...and they can make meth in a bathtub right here.
Besides, MDMA and bath salts are all the rage (and medical pot).
Not too long ago, it was a legal drug and used in Coka-Cola
And my goal is to date Gisele Bundchen, Rebecca Romijn, and Elle MacPherson.
And my goal is to date Gisele Bundchen, Rebecca Romijn, and Elle MacPherson.
One is a goal, the other is a doped up delusion.
Now, now, there are explanations other than drug use for Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield's silly pronouncement about traffickers opting out of North America.
Your response, as lame as it was, is an admission of the sad mental state that dope fiends suffer.
As opposed to your scintillating bon mot about "doped up delusions"? LOL! Run along and play.
That link was hilarious - LMAO!
Was so good - you had to go back to cry about it. :P
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