As we observe the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon declaring a war on drugs, it’s important to point out that this so called war is all about money.
For example, the big whigs at Scotts Miracle Gro want to get in on the medical marijauana craze. Scotts Chief Executive Jim Hagedorn told the Wall Street Journal, “he is exploring targeting medical marijuana as well as other niches to help boost sales at his lawn and garden company.”
So the guys that want to kill weed, also want to grow it? Only in America!
Hagedorn went on to say, “I want to target the pot market, there’s no good reason we haven’t.”
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Like we said earlier, it’s all about the Benjamin’s and the power that comes along with. The war on drugs has killed millions of people, while at the same time throwing them in jail. It’s revolutionizing our economy into a bad segment, where people are either dying or being prosecuted everyday.
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Drug related arrests have climbed to an incredible 700,000 people a year, even though the use of drugs has not increased. The central issue is between the people who choose to use drugs and the people who choose to sell them.
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The drug war has only worsened our communities, but authorities have scored really huge drug busts worth billions over the years.
See the next page for the 10 biggest drug busts.
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In March, 2007, law enforcement authorities in Houston, TX, seized more than 19,000 pounds of marijuana stored inside two yellow school buses. The estimated street value was $13 million.
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One hundred and fifty miles off the coast of San Diego, a U.S. Coast Guard unit discovered 26,000 pounds of pot aboard a 63-foot yacht in November, 1984.
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Federal drug agents captured 50,000 pounds of marijuana stashed into a “nondescript” Queens, NY, home in 2009 as part of a crackdown on a Canadian drug-smuggling operation. The street value of what was seized is $150 million.
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200 million worth of hashish was found in in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2008. It’s estimated to have weighed roughly the same as 30 double-decker buses.
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In July 2009, law enforcement authorities confiscated at least 330,000 marijuana plants worth a $1 billion in Fresno County, CA.
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21 tons of cocaine which belonged to Mexican drug lord Rafael Muñoz Talavera of the Juárez cartel was seized from a Los Angeles warehouse in 1989.
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The Colombian Navy made headlines in 2007 when it announced the seizure of 27 tons of cocaine, the biggest in the nation’s history. Buried in 919 packages of 55 pounds each near the coastal town of Pizarro, the drugs are estimated to have a wholesale value of more than $500 million.
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An anti-drug operation in Afghanistan led by a British cop resulted in the seizure last year of 17.5 tons of poppy seeds from opium plants, which would have grown 30 tons of heroin worth $900 million.
