How marijuana is smuggled across the Mexican border

Visit: http://telegraph.co.uk/marijuana The border fence that was built to keep illegal immigrants and narcotics out of the United States ends a couple of metres into the Pacific ocean. Captain Dave Myers shows Alastair Good where he has picked up swimmers, surfers, and boats laden with marijuana from Mexico.

"That's Mexico over there," says Captain Dave Myers, pointing to the Tijuana bullring 100 yards away from where he is sitting in his patrol car in Imperial Beach, San Diego.

"We used to come up here all the time as kids, go surfing, eat street tacos in Tijuana and then come back across."

Those days are gone now. Two fences run along the Mexico-US border and video cameras mounted on 20ft poles monitor the barren strip of land 24 hours a day, giving the area the air of a demilitarised zone.

During his first week at Imperial Beach police station, Capt Myers joined a patrol at the border fence during severe fog. "All you could hear was the clink, clink of metal on metal, all around," he said. "You couldn't see the hand in front of your face but you could hear this noise everywhere, it was eerie."

The noise was made by Mexicans putting ladders up to the fence and throwing their cargo and/or themselves over into America.

It is this determination that means law enforcement activity on the border is only likely to lead to the displacement of smuggling, rather than its eradication.

In 1996, Californians voted to pass Proposition 215, a law which paved the way for medical marijuana dispensaries in the state.

On November 2, California will be voting whether to approve Proposition 19, a law that would legalise the drug for personal recreational use.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/alastair-good/

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[Death2theNWO777]

LIES!!!!

CIA buys and sells drugs!!!

[thehulk3010]

marijuana is HARMLESS andf is only illegal because of William Randolph Hearst (who owned a newspaper company and a timber company who provided the paper for said newspaper) because Hemp is cheaper and faster to grow then trees

since then they try to make marijuana look like a crime usually associating marijuana with negro jazz payers or mexicans calling it "loco weed"

deaths from tobacco= 453,000

poor diet = 365,000

alcohol = 85,000

marijuana = 0

wake up america

since then

[pureasthedrivensnow9]

WEED GOOD . PEOPLE DUMB

[R20arturo]

more die cuz of your lil drug capture scam .. just saying , dont go and do it now that i told you .lol

[RagingRobNot]

they wouldnt sneak it in to america if there was no value in the drugs theres a large untaxed business because of prohibition. Nobody would rob banks if there was no value in the paper (which there isnt people just let it be so) so whos creating crime here i think the govt. to get more and more spending where will it end

[KingBalisong]

Weeds not bad! The goverment is just full of old piece of shit patriot ignorants XD

[KingBalisong]

@fixdeluxe1 lol yeah right...

[carlafierro7]

i no need no reefer .. I GOT LOVE :)

[fixdeluxe1]

The CIA is the worlds biggest drug dealing cartel

[fishingfreak134]

i lol'd when i saw the contraband commercial before this....how coincidental

[polanddemon]

@MrJordanf02 Not entirely true due to the fact marijuana contains tar. So it's not marijuana, the actual substance (THC) that causes it but the tar within it.

[MrJordanf02]

@polanddemon your stupid marijauna kills cancer cells so you cant actually get cancer from it