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Pollute the ocean give some high fives, maybe do a little of the kilo that just so happened to not go in the water. All in a days work.

That is a ton of smack, I'm guessing it was base, it that were refined hcl that would be worth way more. Plus think of how much raw product (opium) was needed to make that much. I'm sure it was from different places with diff opium but still, even making a kilo of heroin hcl requires tons of pod scraping over a few acres. Talk about manual labor.


Interesting side note, there is an afghan restaurant here in bmore called the Helmand, as in the adfhani province where much of the opium cultivation takes place, and its owned by Hamid karzais brother. Inside they have beautiful drawing of red poppies adorni g the wall and also ancient opium collecting tools. Plus the food is good, maybe a little too good....
 
Canada - THC-laced gummy bears seized by Quebec police

THC-laced gummy bears seized by Quebec police
Melinda Dalton
CBC
July 10th, 2015

Five different colours of THC-laced gummy bears seized from teens in Laval, Que., have police worried the benign-looking drugs could be spreading through the market.

"Laval police have never made any seizures of drugs in a jube-jube form before," said Laval police Sgt. Frédéric Jean.

"We have seized pills before, amphetamines, that had cartoons on it and looked like candy. But doesn't look like candy — this is candy."

THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the ingredient in marijuana that produces a high.

Police seized more than a dozen of the gummies in May after patrol officers spotted two teens smoking pot in a parking in the Chomedy district. Officers searched the car and found drugs and the candy.
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Read the full story here.
 
Now I remember my mother telling us kids not to accept candy from strangers. I´ve always thought she was really naive as nobody gives drugs for free.
But if you think about it. It´s could be much easier to initiate your drug life by eating a candy rather than to smoke a joint to feel high.
 
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Wow, write a new headline!

Gummies laced with dangerous drug all the rage!
Indistinguishable from regular candy by children!
Nefarious plot to sneak illegal drugs across borders risks children's lives!
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Yep!!
 
They found a dozen of them, not exactly a huge bust...

This is also legal under Canadian law. An MMJ patient can do whatever they'd like with their prescribed cannabis, including make oil, tinctures, salves, and edibles, including candy; thanks to a recent court ruling (there's a thread down the page somewhere).
 
Police Seize 250KG of KHAT

Police seize 250kg of amphetamine-like plant in Brisbane


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Police have seized about 250 kilograms of khat plants in Mt Gravatt East. Photo: Queensland Police
Police have seized a quarter-tonne of an amphetamine-like east African plant during a morning raid in south Brisbane.
Morningside-based detectives raided a Heyford Street house at Mount Gravatt East about 7am Saturday morning, where they found about 250 kilograms of khat plants along with $7000 in cash. "A man is currently assisting police with their enquiries," police said in a statement.

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Police begin piling up the khat plants seized at the home. Photo: Queensland Police

Khat, otherwise known as Catha edulis, is native to the horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula, where khat-chewing is a cultural tradition going back centuries.
When consumed, khat is said to have an amphetamine-like stimulant effect. A synthetic version, called m-Cat, was behind "meow meow", a new ecstasy-like drug that entered circulation in 2010. In Australia, khat is considered to be a dangerous drug.


Source http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/police-seize-250kg-of-amphetaminelike-plant-in-brisbane-20150314-1446ru.html



JUST WONDERING IF ANYONE HAD ANY FOLLOW UP INFORMATION ON THIS CASE AS IT IS A FEW MONTHS OLD?
CAN IT BE USED TO MAKE SYNTHETIC RC'S?
 
Minor bust!


Here in Denmark they seize that every other day at the boarder.


Here they don't use it to make other drugs. Normally they ship it directly to the Somali people.
 
US Coast Guard in Alameda Seizes 5.4 Tonnes of Cocaine Valued at $181 Million

The U.S. Coast Guard in Northern California seized 12,000 pounds – or six tons – of cocaine valued at $181 million from a semi-submersible vessel in the Pacific Ocean 200 miles south of Mexico, the largest bust of its kind in Coast Guard history.

Chief Warrant Officer Allyson Conroy said that the Alameda, Calif.-based crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton also apprehended four suspected smugglers from Colombia and seized 275 bales from the vessel on July 18. A total of 4,000 pounds of the drug sank, however, during the historic seizure.

Conroy did not identify the men, but said they were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Agency. US Dept. of Justice spokeswoman Casey Rettig would not release their names until the defendants make their initial appearance in federal court. Apparently, the suspects are still on the Coast Guard cutter en route to Alameda.

Helment camera video taken by the Coast Guard shows mostly shirtless men crawling out from the bottom of their blue vessel as narcotics crews took them onto their orange vessel. "Afeura! Afuera!" or "Get out! Get out!" a Coast Guard crew member can be heard shouting to the men.

The Coast Guard announced the seizure on Wednesday. The delay was mostly due to red tape involved with so many different agencies in different countries involved in the seizure, officials said.

Illicit traffickers use semi-submersible vessels, Conroy said, because they are mostly submerged, with just the cockpit and the exhaust pipe visible above water. She said they are very difficult to detect. She also would not disclose how the crew detected this particular vessel, saying only that, "We have cutters in the air and on boats to make sure that the seas are safe."

A U.S. Navy plane spotted the vessel from the air, Conroy said.

After removing the majority of the cocaine, Conroy said the crew tried to tow the vessel to shore for evidence, but it began taking on water and sank, bringing with it 4,000 pounds of cocaine left inside.

"There's no environmental concern," she said. "They were still packaged in bales, which is mostly just plastic and duct tape."

While the July discovery was the largest of its kind, the Coast Guard based in Alameda has stopped a total of 15 different drug smuggling attempts since April, including another semi-submersible vessel carrying 5,460 pounds of cocaine June 16,
Conroy said. While the military crew is based in the Bay Area, the federal agency is deployed throughout the world.

Since May, the crew has seized more than 33,000 pounds of cocaine worth more than $540 million, she said. The July 18 bust set a record as the largest amount seized from the type of vessel involved.

According to the Coast Guard, there have been 25 known semi-submersible interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean since November 2006 when the first documented bust occurred.



Source: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...llion-Largest-Bust-in-History--320897421.html
 
U.S. Coast Guard shows off $1-billion worth of seized cocaine

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The U.S. Coast Guard dropped off more than $1 billion in cocaine in San Diego on Monday that was seized in one of the most successful seasons of patrolling off the Central and Southern American coasts, authorities said.

The cargo: more than 66,000-pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $1.01 billion, the Coast Guard said. It was the biggest single offload of narcotics in Coast Guard history and the result of 23 separate confrontations with drug smugglers in the Pacific, officials said.

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“There is still work to be done,” Adm. Paul Zukunft, commandant of the Coast Guard, said in a statement. “We must increase already hard-earned momentum to curb the rising tide of crime, violence and instability in our hemisphere.”

For the current fiscal year, which runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, the Coast Guard has seized more than 119,000 pounds of cocaine worth more than $1.8 billion and apprehended more than 215 alleged smugglers. That amounts to more than the previous three years’ total combined and the most in a single year since 2009, officials said.

Monday’s offload included bales of cocaine seized in two interdictions in June and July, Coast Guard officials said.

On July 18, the crew aboard the 418-foot Coast Guard cutter Stratton seized more than six tons of cocaine worth an estimated $181 million from a partially submerged vessel in the Pacific Ocean, the agency said last week.

The bust occurred in international waters 200 miles off the coast of Central America, after a Navy maritime patrol aircraft spotted the vessel and alerted the Alameda-based crew, which was patrolling the area, Petty Officer Michael Anderson said.

Video of the confrontation shows armed Coast Guard crew members opening the vessel’s top — the craft is floating at the surface — and demanding its crew to climb out.

“Afuera! Afuera!” a Coast Guard crew member yelled.

One by one, the four men in the vessel climbed out. They were taken into custody and will be prosecuted by the U.S. attorney’s office, officials said. A list of charges was not immediately available.

Inside the vessel was 16,000 pounds of cocaine in hundreds of bails and bricks, Anderson said.

The smuggling vessels act like low-tech submarines, which are mostly submerged with only a cockpit and an exhaust pipe above the surface. They’re extremely difficult to detect and dangerous to operate, Coast Guard officials say.

In June, they stopped another partially submerged vessel carrying 5,460 pounds of cocaine.

There have been 25 known semi-submersible interdictions in the eastern Pacific since 2006. The patrols are a joint effort between the Coast Guard, the U.S. Navy and cooperating governments in Central America, officials said.

Source: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-coast-guard-cocaine-20150810-story.html

Video: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=493_1439285286
 
They then dumped it all directly into the ocean...

If they got a billion dollars worth of coke how many billions worth went unnoticed??
 
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