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Omaha Steve

(99,628 posts) Thu Oct 22, 2015, 10:52 PM Oct 2015

Major drug tunnel found on US-Mexico border in California

Source: AP

By ELLIOT SPAGAT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities seized 12 tons of marijuana and arrested 22 people after discovering one of the longest cross-border tunnels ever dug between the U.S. and Mexico, officials said Thursday.

The passage connecting warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, was about 2,400 feet long and 30 feet deep. It was lit, ventilated and equipped with a rail system — hallmarks of the most sophisticated tunnels found along the border.

Near-simultaneous police stings on Wednesday resulted in six arrests in San Diego and 16 in Mexico. Authorities recovered two tons of marijuana in the U.S. and 10 tons in Mexico.

U.S. authorities said smugglers tried to move the first load of drugs through the tunnel on Wednesday but nothing got through undetected.

FULL story at link.

This Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015 photo released by Mexico's Federal Police shows an underground tunnel that police say was built to smuggle drugs from Tijuana, Mexico to San Diego in the United States. Mexican federal police said the tunnel extends about 2,600 feet (800 meters) and is lit, ventilated, equipped with a rail car system, and lined with metal beams to prevent collapse. (Mexico Federal Police via AP)

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a2f1f92627e940db8cd4cdd008291951/major-drug-tunnel-found-us-mexico-border-california

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Major drug tunnel found on US-Mexico border in California (Original Post) Omaha Steve Oct 2015 OP

You could have just come up to WA state if you wanted weed. We grow more than that here in a month. jtuck004 Oct 2015 #1

While Republicans want the border to look like a Nazi concentration camp above... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #2

Didn't we see that tunnel in "Weeds?" villager Oct 2015 #3

+2 Electric Monk Oct 2015 #6

I saw that Weeds episode. Drunken Irishman Oct 2015 #4

Evidently our drug tunnelers did, too! villager Oct 2015 #7

build a wall! ! Build a wall! ! 2pooped2pop Oct 2015 #5

jtuck004

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1. You could have just come up to WA state if you wanted weed. We grow more than that here in a month.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 11:32 PM

Oct 2015

The WA state government, who is about to get their ass handed to them by Oregon's new mmj law - rofl - got an estimate in 2012 from the Washington Office of Financial Management that residents were consuming about 85 metric tons of marijuana.

By December of 2013 the RAND Corporation had done a new survey, and found the first one off by a little bit. They suggest we burn up about 175 metric tons a year.

Why are we wasting resources on hurting people like this, when we have states producing the same stuff? Our tax money being used to insure no competition? Just a continuation of this racist drug war on people?

This is wrong, and hypocritical.