With all the restrictions on what you can take on transportation into the USA, how are drugs getting in?

Question

It appears to me, that with the money spent on the war in Iraq, we could at least use some of that money for drug interdiction...or does the US Government really want it stopped, at least at the upper echelons of interdiction?

Remember what happened on 9-11, and there was NO drugs came into this country for the first week after 9-11.

Answer 1

Just go back in history and you will see that the military and CIA allegedly carried drugs into this country in the coffins of dead soldiers. Or imagine that a foreign ambassador carries it in his diplomatic pouch (unsearchable by our government); or a pilot on an airliner in his suitcase - or the food contractor putting food on the plane is smugging it across state lines - or an Agent for an International auction house putting some balloons of pure heroin in the base of a statue or perhaps behind a famous painting being sold at auction and coming off a ship, etc. NO WAY TO STOP IT. The "Second Prohibition" is losing, just like the first one did. Time to legalize all drugs, take the profits out of the gangs' hands (mainly Mexican as of this writing), and let those who would destroy themselves either get some of that treatment offered by Aventis (they now innoculate against Cocaine addiction so an addict cannot even get high, as has been ordered by certain judges in certain courts as a condition of probation), or let them destroy themselves in "opium dens" so the rest of us who are not hooked on anything can save on the cost of an estimated 50% of those in prisons today - which represent 3.5% of the population of the U.S., growing at an annual rate of 2%, which means that if this continues in 25 years 75% of the adult population will be in jail, half of them for drugs, with the rest of us supporting them. Do you want to live in such a society? Take the penalty and stigma out of it, admit it is genetic and help those who suffer instead of degrading them or judging them and ruining their lives by forcing them to be next to murderers as they serve a lengthy prison sentence. Just think - what if Insulin were illegal. Then diabetics would be criminals, wouldn't they. Most people who get addicted either have addictive personalities or a chemical imbalance of some kind, so instead of punishing them they need to be helped.

By the way, if any of you think that the real reason for Medical Marijuana is enlightened pity on those suffering from terminal diseases, wake up! it is just the first step in the recognition that "Grass" is a soft drug and should never have been a criminal offense lumped in with hard drugs in the first place (except when driving/using heavy equipment); This "medical" usage is a devious way to separate those who would use a better drug of choice than booze while allowing the government to track the Marijuana users so they know who is NOT in the hard drug camp (and hence can be trusted by acting responsibly and registering themselves); the reason that Marijuana was made a criminal offense in the first place was due to Henry Anslinger and his victorian prude friends who were responsible for Prohibition and were just picking another drug to target because they think intoxication in any form is immoral; whereas if you study animals around the world you will see evidence that they deliberately eat intoxicating plants - several animals are known to eat raw coffee beans because it gets them high - in fact some animals even go back and "hunt" these and other herbs and berries on an annual basis - especially in Honduras and other South and Central American countries, most notably bears. Or think of the birds that eat holly berries and fly into windows. IT IS PART OF NATURE.

Let's face it -IF you believe in God you must realize that even the Opium poppy has a legitimate use as ordained by our Creator, such as when one breaks a leg - so who are we to have talks of eradication - you wouldn't let an endangered species die, would you? So what gives you the right to judge God's wisdom in allowing the creation of the Opium poppy? - not to mention that to a religious person to judge God is blasphemy for which there is no escape from Hell.

So since it's true that the present form of legal sanctions cost way more than they solve, in clogging the courts, destroying non-career criminals and denying people even their right to destroy themselves (yes, it is my right to kill myself if I choose -who are you to say that I can't?) it's time to grow up as a people and revamp the whole thing. Can you handle it? I can.

Answer 2

They are coming in through the Mexican border that Bush has left wide open since 9/11. The terrorists are using the same method and are creating networks in the U.S where they can bring drugs and people across the Mexican border. They can sell the drugs to earn money and use the money to buy weapons on the black market. Congress released a report just prior to last election stating that 150,000 arabs from countries known to sponsor terrorism were caught crossing the Mexican border last year. They estimate 3 or 4 get in for every 1 they catch -- you do the math. I hope americans are ready to fight in the streets of this country because the terrorists are flooding in as fast as the mexicans are and they are not here to work! If we had ever fought a real war on drugs and shut our border down we would be a step ahead of the terrorist instead of 2 step behind them.

Answer 3

Granted. The new laws and regulations on flight travel does slow down the process for you and many others. But it does help cut down on the possible attacks. It's been proven many of times over already. But. a lot of these drug cartels fly there own personal planes and boats across our boarders into our land. That is how they get it here. We catch some. I agree that we need to up the security. I agree that not enough is being done with the border control. But in reality you and I both know that NO ONE can stop all of it. We are only human.

Answer 4

Follow the money. It is interesting to note that since Bush/Cheney invaded Afghanistan with the full support of the American people to pursue and punish Osama and his band of men, they left them alone and secured the oil pipeline project and made sure the poppy fields are in full bloom instead. The streets of London and NYC are flush with the heroin that is derived from those poppy fields in Afghanistan!

Answer 5

Both borders are still porous and serve the drug gangs very well in their trafficking. If drugs were legalized, taxed, and regulated, we wouldn't have to worry about any of this. People could go alter their consciousness as they please, as long as they're not in a position to harm others or infringe on others' rights as citizens.

Answer 6

Never stop it, too much money involved and too much demand on the part of American citizens.