A New Front in the Drug Wars Opens on the Canadian Border -NYT

The drugs move across the Canadian border inside huge tractor-trailer rigs, pounds and pounds stashed in drums of frozen raspberries, tucked in shipments of crushed glass, wood chips and sawdust, or crammed into hollowed-out logs, in secret compartments that agents refer to as "coffins."

Kayakers paddle them south from British Columbia across the freezing bays of America's northwest corner, and well-paid couriers carry up to 100 pounds at a time in makeshift backpacks, hiking eight hours over the rugged mountainous terrain that forms part of the border between the United States and Canada. Small planes drop them onto raspberry fields and dairy farms in hockey bags equipped with avalanche beacons to alert traffickers that the drugs have landed.

The contraband is called B.C. bud, a highly potent form of marijuana named for the Canadian province where it is grown, and it has become the center of what law enforcement officials say is an increasingly violent $7 billion cultivation and smuggling industry.
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Leigh H. Winchell, special agent in charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle, which investigates border crimes and is part of the Department of Homeland Security, said the police killings in Alberta were stark evidence of "how serious the B.C. bud issue is getting, how much money is involved and the lengths to which these criminals are willing to go to protect it."

http://nytimes.com/2005/03/05/national/05bud.html?hp&ex=1109998800&en=f33794ad5651fadd&ei=5094&partner=homepage

BC Bud! What a fucking joke. I guess California and Arizona doesn't have enough sunlight and long enough days.

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We're jus tryin' to get y'all to mellow out and stop makin war on everybody!





:smoke:

That green, sticky, hydroponic goodness... :smoke:

fuck the drug war. and all its bullshit

Why the obsession with 'raspberries'?

"stashed in drums of frozen raspberries"
"drop them onto raspberry fields"

WTF? Why discriminate against cranberries and strawberries?

BUT I do understand the "hockey bags equipped with avalanche beacons"...Canadians put everything in hockey bags because they play hockey unlike Americans...!!

Damn those druggy raspberry eating hockey playing deviates!

smuggled in boxes of a dozen Tim Hortons doughnuts. In case you get the munchies after toking.


Those crafty Cannucks will resort to any devious means to hook us Americans on the evil reefer.

around here it is Michigan's Upper Peninsula that boasts some potent stock.