It appears that our drug prohibition enforcement agencies are in need of a PR boost. Why do I say that? Because they are recycling this story.
Drug gangs taking over US public lands
Not far from Yosemite’s waterfalls and in the middle of California’s redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.
Pot has been grown on public lands for decades, but Mexican traffickers have taken it to a whole new level: using armed guards and trip wires to safeguard sprawling plots that in some cases contain tens of thousands of plants offering a potential yield of more than 30 tons of pot a year.
Well this story has been done before.
Nov 2009
October 2008
August 2008
June 2007
August 2006
May 2005
June 2003
April 2001
Nov 1996
This one is funny:
Nov 1989
The drug war is touted as one war worth fighting. Does anyone still believe that any more? And what is the lead in every single article? It is worse than we thought. Worse than ever before. Of course we get the same drivel in climate war news. It is always worse than we thought.
Cross Posted at Power and Control
Comments
3 responses to “Recycled Story”
Wars against vice have never been worth fighting; they are naked tyranny.
On the other hand, it’s a good thing the progressives are otherwise anti-war; neither the societies nor the governments they desire merit defense.
Great post!
We have lost so much already! We must redouble our efforts!
Some social conservatives are claiming victory (for example, in the second comment here).
For that matter, those of us who believe in both legalizing and criticizing dope will sometimes declare victory.