USS Stephen W. Groves Scores Interdicts 8.1 Metric Tons of Cocaine

Navy Newsstand ^ | 9/15/2006 12:05:00 PM | USS Stephen W. Groves Public Affairs

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I wonder what the street value is.

[Crazieman]

Several hundred million, I would imagine.

[misterrob]

Druggie Libertarians are deeply saddened

[Paloma_55]

The Democrats just lost a huge campaign source.

[End Times Sentinel]

Seems like more trouble than its worth, smuggling cocaine across the ocean. It'd be a whole lot easier just to get some illegal to carry it across the border.

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

[LetsRok]

These boats should be blown out of the water with their crew.

[RSmithOpt]

Well, let's assume best retail scenario: If sold by the gram:

8.1 tons X 2000 lbs/ton X 16 oz./lb. X 28 gms/oz. X $80/gm =

$580,608,000.

But, street value would most likely be half of that.

[Jeff Head]

GO NAVY!

[Strategerist]

I'm anxiously awaiting the reports of all the parts of the country where you can't buy cocaine now, due to this bust...


And waiting...

And waiting...

[MAD-AS-HELL]

8.1 tons confiscated as 100 tons comes in undetected. End the war on drugs. Legalize it. Regulate it. Take away the allure of it. It will bring the price down and then you'll end the crime associated with cartels and hit a very imporants funding source for Terrorists as they won't be able to profit from it as much as they are now. But, we never learn from what we experienced from Prohibition.

[Strategerist]

I guess this will cause a slight bump up in the cost of cocaine and crack, more profits for the guys who didn't have their shipments seized, and a slight uptick in theft crimes from addicts to pay for their addictions.

[AppyPappy]

It will bring the price down huh? Kinda like Cigarettes being legal so the price has come down, right?

[AppyPappy]

Actually, it will cause some mid-level guys to die for losing this much money. When you bust a guy with few grand of dope, chances are good that he owes someone that money.

[finnman69]

Druggie Libertarians are deeply saddened

and enraged

[b4its2late]

Wow. That's good. It's going to hurt either terrorists, drug lords or both.

[sticker]

That's right legalize, it doesn't matter how many addicts are created. I wonder how many of you legalize it people have ever known anybody that destroyed their life or someone else's doing drugs.

[Jeff Head]

[MAD-AS-HELL]

The two would be quite different as the price of cigs can be blamed on unique circumstances all thanks to opportunistic lawyers and politicians. Could prices go up? Possibly, but using simple economics and history of prices of things that are illegal vs legal, I'd place my bet that prices would come down. The more important goals is to stop the crime associated with drugs, dismantle the murderous cartels, and bring some common sense into the war on drugs which hasn't worked and never will. It's funny how conservatives are all for reforming welfare and other bloated government programs that were failures and hurt people yet they won't admit the war on drugs is a failure.

[RSmithOpt]

LMAO!!! Hmmmm you think some of the evidence will likely disappear and wind up help funding political candidates this Nov.?

Just think if the borders were physically sealed off where vehicles can easily cross uninspected?

Oooops! Can't do that. Wouldn't be bonuses in the pockets of some of our more illustrious business and government moguls.

[bassmaner]

8.1 tons confiscated as 100 tons comes in undetected. End the war on drugs. Legalize it. Regulate it. Take away the allure of it. It will bring the price down and then you'll end the crime associated with cartels and hit a very imporants funding source for Terrorists as they won't be able to profit from it as much as they are now. But, we never learn from what we experienced from Prohibition.

Let's not forget that while USS Steven W. Groves is tasked with stopping a very small % of the Peruvian marching powder that makes it into the US, the Iranians are building up their forces in the Persian Gulf, the Chinese are building a blue-water navy, and tinpot dictators like Chavez and Kim threaten their neighbors and world peace in general.

The Groves would be much better put to use defending Americans against their foreign enemies instead of wasting its time chasing vice peddlers.