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Mexican Congress Ponders Legalization
In the midst of its worst drug-related violence in decades, the Mexican Congress has planned a three day debate on the feasibility of legalizing weed. The talks are planned to conclude (not...
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Obama Visits Mexico, Clarifies Stance
During a joint press conference last Thursday with Mexican President Felipe Calderón, President Obama clarified his stance on the war on drugs. He said that the goal of the American government and the...
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Former Pastor Expresses Liberal View on Marijuana
A compassionate outlook on marijuana use… from a pastor? An essay written for the Associated Baptist Press by Benjamin Cole, former pastor of Parkway Baptist Church in Arlington outlines Cole’s...
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Mexican Senate Votes to Decriminalize Weed Posession
The Mexican Senate approved a measure Tuesday that would eliminate penalties for possession of several drugs, including marijuana. Proposed by conservative President Felipe Calderon, the bill would...
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Debris: Monday’s Leftovers
Jury Spares Witness Killer’s Life A drug dealer already behind bars, Patrick Albert Byers Jr, convicted for ordering the contract killing of a murder witness, was spared the death penalty and given...
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Border Patrol Agents Using Tonto’s Skills
No longer are U.S. Border Patrol agents merely driving along the 2,000 mile long Mexican border searching for suspicious vehicles, looking to smuggle drugs into the United States. With the building of...
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Former Drug Kingpin Releases Memoirs
As Morgan Freeman noted in The Shawshank Redemption, “Prison time is slow time.” For one former drug trafficker, time has afforded him the opportunity to share his story with his fellow countrymen....
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Mexico’s Drug Crusade Plagues Citizens
Over the last few months, stories of the debilitating drug violence in Mexico have become commonplace in the US media. While the murders of civilians and law enforcement officers continue to climb,...
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AZ Border Patrol Agents Seize 300 Pounds
On May 29, nine smugglers from Guaymas, Mexico, carrying bundles of marijuana in backpacks, were arrested by Border Patrol agents from the Wellton station, near Aztec, AZ. Pings on a radar from a...
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Mexican National Hangs Ten, Loses Twenty-Four
Maybe he didn’t want to hike across treacherous American terrain to smuggle in marijuana, but a 30-year old Mexican man was thinking outside the box when he decided to get on a surfboard and paddle to...
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DEA Proud of Own ‘Operation Three Star’
Recently, Houston news site Chron.com ran a weekend piece on a local DEA sting branded ‘Operation Three Star’. Through use of a converted informant, drug agents were able to work slowly through a...
View ArticleFrozen Sharks Are the New Drug Mules, Mexico Cracks Down
Armed officers of the Mexican Navy patroling the Gulf coast port of Progreso in Yucatan state seized a ton of cocaine on board a freight ship. X-ray machines and drug sniffing dogs helped uncover the...
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Mexican Congress Passes Drug Decriminalization
Early this week, a major blow was struck against the modern War on Drugs. Faced with a unprecedented drug crisis threatening to spill over its already porous borders, the Mexican legislature...
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Mexican Street Dealers Dying in Droves
The Modesto Bee told a heart-wrenching story last weekend of a young Tijuana meth dealer named Hector Rodriguez Estrada, who was killed in cold blood along with his pregnant girlfriend, by a rival...
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Appeals Court Upholds Sentence for Maimed Smuggler
One of the most politicized cases in the Border Patrol’s history, crept on Monday as a federal appeals court upheld a sentence levied on a Mexican drug smuggler who was shot by two agents on the...
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