Mexican army finds 15 tons of pure methamphetamine

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The sheer scale of the bust announced late Wednesday in Jalisco state suggests involvement of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, a major international trafficker of cocaine and marijuana that has moved into meth production and manufacturing on an industrial scale.
Army officials didn't say what drug gangs could have been behind the dozens of blue barrels filled with powdered meth. Army Gen. Gilberto Hernandez Andreu said the meth was ready for packaging. There was no information on where the drugs were headed.
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The haul could have supplied 13 million doses worth over $4 billion on U.S. streets.
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Such large-scale production could suggest an expansion ... into Latin American and Asian markets," Mazzitelli said of the find. But he also noted, "it may be a product that hasn't been able to be sold, and like any business, when the market is depressed, stockpiles build up.
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Reporters were shown barrels of white and yellow powder that filled three rooms on a small ranch outside of Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city.
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This could potentially put a huge dent in the supply chain in the U.S," said U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Rusty Payne. "When we're taking this much out of the supply chain, it's a huge deal.
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The powerful Sinaloa cartel, a major international trafficker of cocaine and marijuana that has moved into meth production and manufacturing on an industrial scale.
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Maybe one of the reasons levamisole has been allowed to persist in cocaine--and thereby shrink the cocaine customer base--is that the Mexican cartels are trying to transition to methamphetamine. The cartels then wouldn't have to depend on other countries' coca fields, and ephedra is supposedly a big crop in Mexico.
 
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