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    Big ol' Golden Triangle drug bust...

    Thailand announces large drugs bust
    Wed, Apr 04, 2018 - Thailand has made one of its largest crystal methamphetamine busts, seizing 700 million baht (US$22.4 million) of the drug, police said yesterday, as the UN warned Southeast Asia was being flooded with illegal drugs from the “Golden Triangle” region.
    Police said 700kg of the drug, known as ice, was seized on Wednesday last week in southern Chumpon Province and was destined for Malaysia. Two Thais and two Malaysians were arrested in connection with the bust. The methamphetamine market has expanded at an alarming rate in Southeast Asia.

    In 2015, experts in several nations in the region reported an increase in the use of both crystalline methamphetamine and methamphetamine tablets. Among amphetamines, methamphetamine represents the greatest global health threat, a UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report said last year. “These big seizures are indications that there is a relentless supply pumping out of the Golden Triangle and north Shan to flood Southeast Asian markets, and also transit Southeast Asia to high value markets like Australia, New Zealand and potentially further,” UNODC Southeast Asia Representative Jeremy Douglas said.

    Police yesterday displayed the haul at a government compound north of Bangkok. Also on display were 890 million baht of other illicit drugs, including cocaine, cannabis and ecstasy, seized in various busts in the week ending Sunday. Most of the drugs were produced outside of Thailand and were trafficked through the nation en route to Australia, North America and Europe. “The prices we announced are the values in Thailand,” said Police Lieutenant General Sommai Kongvisaisuk, commander of the Thai Narcotics Suppression Bureau. “Once the drugs pass through Thailand the prices will increase.”

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    Deal marijuana an' ya liable to lose yer house...

    Justice Department seizes over 100 homes in crackdown on marijuana operation
    April 4, 2018 • WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement agencies seized over 100 homes in the Sacramento, California-area this week in what the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday said was part of a sweeping crackdown on a criminal marijuana growing operation funded by China-based criminal groups.
    In a two-day sweep that started on Tuesday, the Justice Department said hundreds of federal agents and local police executed search warrants at about 74 homes and two business offices believed to be used for marijuana-growing operations. At the same time, the Justice Department filed civil forfeiture actions against 100 homes, a legal action allowing the government to confiscate assets if there is probable cause to believe a crime was committed. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made cracking down on illegal drugs one of his priorities since taking over the helm of the Justice Department last year. Sessions, who has made no secret of his disdain for marijuana, in January ended an Obama-era policy that called on prosecutors not to prioritize bringing federal marijuana cases in states where it is legal.


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    In addition to seizing the homes, the government also seized 61,050 marijuana plants, more than 440 pounds (200 kg) of processed marijuana and 15 firearms. The policy change came shortly after California formally launched the world's largest regulated market for recreational pot. The operation announced on Wednesday, however, relates to underground illegal marijuana-growing operations, and not those following California's stringent regulatory and licensing regime. Federal law enforcement officials said in a statement that the criminal organization targeted through the home seizures used foreign funds to purchase the homes in order to use them for growing marijuana.

    Down payments on the properties were financed by wire transfers from the province of Fujian, China, and the pot that was grown in the homes was later distributed outside California to other parts of the United States, the statement said. The Justice Department said the operation represented one of the largest-ever residential forfeiture efforts in U.S. criminal history. In addition to seizing the homes, the government also seized 61,050 marijuana plants, more than 440 pounds (200 kg) of processed marijuana and 15 firearms.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/justice-d...014211699.html

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    Quarter billion dollars worth of drugs seized by Coast Guard cutters off San Diego...

    Coast Guard Offloads 17,000 Pounds of Seized Cocaine in San Diego
    17 Jul 2018 - More than 17,000 pounds of cocaine seized by the crews of two U.S. Coast Guard vessels were offloaded Monday in San Diego.

    The drugs, worth nearly $260 million wholesale, were seized from four suspected smuggling vessels in late June and early July in international waters off the Pacific coast of South and Central America, Coast Guard officials said. The cocaine was offloaded at the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal.



    Crew members from the Coast Guard Cutter Steadfast prepare a pallet of seized cocaine to be offloaded at Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal, San Diego, July 16, 2018. Approximately 7,800 kilograms of cocaine seized in international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean by the crews of the cutters Steadfast and Alert were offloaded.



    The crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Steadfast seized more than 12,000 pounds of cocaine in recent weeks, including more than 11,000 pounds from a single panga on July 11, officials said. "The suspected smugglers on that boat dumped their cocaine load and managed to evade capture following a high-speed chase, but the trail of cocaine bales recovered is one of the largest loads to be intercepted from a single small vessel in years," officials said in a statement. It was the first seizure of more than 12,000 pounds of cocaine from a panga since 2005, officials said, and the first seizure of at least that size from a small vessel since March 2016.


    Additionally, the crew aboard the Cutter Alert seized more than 5,000 pounds of cocaine from two suspected smuggling vessels in recent weeks, officials said. "I continue to be impressed by the dedication and tenacity of the crews aboard our cutters and the difficult, dangerous missions they perform," said Cmdr. Alain Balmaceda, commanding officer of the Steadfast. Both the Steadfast and Alert are 210-foot ships based out of Oregon. The drugs offloaded Monday arrived aboard the Steadfast.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    Do you support the war on drugs?
    I am against incarcerating people for drugs. American Penal System is the harshest in the World.

    But I believe in prohibiting drugs and tobacco to save lives.

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    Definitely, in USA, drug prohibition is enforced by inhumane measures. In nations like Canada and Scandinavia, such measures would be unthinkable. People should not be imprisoned for using or selling drugs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CCitizen View Post
    Definitely, in USA, drug prohibition is enforced by inhumane measures. In nations like Canada and Scandinavia, such measures would be unthinkable. People should not be imprisoned for using or selling drugs.
    Why do you think laws exist?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr.Soxes View Post
    Why do you think laws exist?
    In Canada and Scandinavia laws ensure protection and well-being of all people living in these nations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CCitizen View Post
    In Canada and Scandinavia laws ensure protection and well-being of all people living in these nations.
    Is that why they import $#@!holers?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    Do you support the war on drugs?
    Yes! One time I saw a joint and I intentionally set it on fire.
    “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by CCitizen View Post
    Definitely, in USA, drug prohibition is enforced by inhumane measures. In nations like Canada and Scandinavia, such measures would be unthinkable. People should not be imprisoned for using or selling drugs.
    Asian and South Asian countries have far more severe drug prohibitions and punishments.
    https://www.tripsavvy.com/punishment...t-asia-1629904

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