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Official blames a fortified U.S. border for rise in Mexican cocaine use
AP ^ | 10/17/01 | The Associated Press

Posted on 10/17/2001 9:28:20 PM PDT by Migraine

Edited on 07/06/2004 6:36:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Official blames a fortified U.S. border for rise in Mexican cocaine use The Associated Press 10/17/01 9:54 PM MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Increased security along the U.S. border after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington has made it harder for smugglers to move drugs onto American soil and increased cocaine use in Mexico, a police official said Wednesday. Crime Prevention Director Pedro Jose Penaloza told a news conference that cocaine smugglers, afraid to cross a fortified U.S. border, have begun selling drugs at rock-bottom prices in the central states of San Luis Potosi, Aguascalientes, Queretaro and Guanajuato. The states have long been considered part of the "smugglers' bridge to the U.S.-Mexican border," Penaloza said. Penaloza said Mexico has become so saturated with cocaine that drug dealers in some locales are offering the usually high-priced narcotic at prices that are cheaper than the normal street price of marijuana.


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Just another sign of the times. Unexpected side effects always follow draconian measures, which always follow crises, which always precipitate draconian responses... I never would have anticipated this one, though.
1 posted on 10/17/2001 9:28:20 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: Migraine
Too damn bad. Now if we will just start rounding up all illegals and shipping them out, we might get somewhere.
3 posted on 10/17/2001 9:33:12 PM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: Migraine
When they can't get it across the border, they just push it right up their nose. Doesn't that just break your heart. LOL
4 posted on 10/17/2001 9:33:41 PM PDT by The Real Deal
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To: HKUSP9mm
The West Wing. All of HollyWeird.
5 posted on 10/17/2001 9:35:15 PM PDT by The Real Deal
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To: Migraine
They blame us for their addiction....
6 posted on 10/17/2001 9:36:06 PM PDT by classygreeneyedblonde
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To: StoneColdGOP; dubyaismypresident; rockchalkjayhawk; Texaggie79; sirgawain; 2Jedismom; beowolf...
Looks like more of them, Blame America Crowd
7 posted on 10/17/2001 9:36:17 PM PDT by Cool Guy
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To: Migraine
Hmmm. Very interesting. Allow me to make a reasoned, logical response to this article.

HahahaHAHAhahahAHAHAHAHAhahahahHAHAHA(*gasp*)HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA(*breathe in*)HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Whew! That felt good! Havn't had a laugh like that one in a long time!

Now if we can stop the illegals coming in like we have apparently stopped the drugs from coming in then maybe, just maybe, our country might have a chance at having a future!

In the meantime, Mexico can enjoy the ravages of a cocaine epidemic. Just wait until "free-basing" gets popular down there. It's gonna be a hot time in the old town real soon now. Wait until they discover all of the joys of "crack", with crack addicition, crack violence, crack babies.

8 posted on 10/17/2001 9:37:02 PM PDT by Billy_bob_bob
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To: Cool Guy
LOL, thanks for the ping. It's amazing what we're at fault for these days.
9 posted on 10/17/2001 9:38:31 PM PDT by StoneColdGOP
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To: Migraine
So much for congressional claims that military on the border is just not a good option, won't work, move on, nothing to see here.
10 posted on 10/17/2001 9:38:43 PM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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To: Migraine
Boo hoo, they can't get across the border so they have to snort their own stash and sell it to their own people. Grab a violin and sing me a sob story.
11 posted on 10/17/2001 9:39:20 PM PDT by Hillary 666
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To: Cool Guy
Aw, i feel so sorry for those poor people using cocaine. We must relax the border restrictions immediately! (sarcasm off)
12 posted on 10/17/2001 9:42:05 PM PDT by rockchalkjayhawk
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To: The Real Deal
When they can't get it across the border, they just push it right up their nose. Doesn't that just break your heart. LOL

These people can't have a lick of common sense. I can't believe anyone with half a brain, would be snorting any white powdery stuff right now, considering all the anthrax going around. I really could care less, however.

13 posted on 10/17/2001 9:42:16 PM PDT by Mark17
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To: Cool Guy
...have begun selling drugs at rock-bottom prices..

Some folks just can't resist a sale.

14 posted on 10/17/2001 9:43:13 PM PDT by MaeWest
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To: The Real Deal
BTW, I am 45 minutes from you. How about Tam O Shanter?
15 posted on 10/17/2001 9:44:33 PM PDT by Mark17
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No kidding Mark, thought about the white powder angle. Wonder if a laced kilo that made it's way to Berkeley would drive the terrorism point home to the "Reach Out" crowd. I don't hope for this by the way.
16 posted on 10/17/2001 9:48:05 PM PDT by MannMade
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Wonder if a laced kilo that made it's way to Berkeley would drive the terrorism point home to the "Reach Out" crowd. I don't hope for this by the way.

LOL. No, I don't hope for it either, especially because I am only 42 miles from Berkeley. I do, however, know a few people from Berkeley, and the ones I know, think those lefties are a bunch of blithering idiots.

17 posted on 10/17/2001 9:54:40 PM PDT by Mark17
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To: Cool Guy; Dutchy
Boo Hoo, ain't life a bi&ch.

This thrilled me almost as much as reading the NY Times article "Mexican (Illegal) Immigrants Face New Set of Fears". although you won't find the word ILLEGAL in their title.

18 posted on 10/17/2001 10:02:05 PM PDT by StarFan
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To: Mark17
Other Headlines might be....

Official blames a fortified U.S. border for the lack of good stolen American cars

Official blames a fortified U.S. border for new Kumbya verses

Official blames a fortified U.S. border increase in Mother Mary sightings in flour tortillas

19 posted on 10/17/2001 10:08:49 PM PDT by Aztech
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To: The Real Deal
It is kinda amusing considering some if not most of these Mexican authorities just keep a blind eye to the smuggling into the US. I guess they need to outlaw the stuff and impose stricter sentencing and surveilance like they have forced us to do.
20 posted on 10/17/2001 10:10:30 PM PDT by Logician
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