Huge marijuana bust at California border crossing nets 15 tons

[yuiyoshida]

(CNN)When searching for hidden stash, an obvious place to check is the mattress.

Federal police in California did so last week, and found 15 tons of marijuana, and made the second largest weed bust in history at a U.S. border crossing.

The truck carrying the weed crossed into California from Mexico at Otay Mesa. The shipment was labeled as "mattresses and cushions." A Customs and Border Police officer had the cargo bay X-rayed, and the objects inside didn't look right, the CBP said in a statement.

An officer flapped open the cargo doors to see weed wrapped into plastic packages, stacked from floor to ceiling -- 1,296 in all. Together they weighed in at 31,598 pounds and had an estimated street value of $18.96 million.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/02/us/marijuana-seizure/index.html

[madokie]

1. Lots of dirt weed

if in fact it is the run of the mill mexican weed that is.
Back in the day I smoked some good weed from mexico but for the most part all it did is screw up my lungs that I'm having to deal with today.

[Octafish]

4. Paraquat?

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001085.htm

[madokie]

6. I'm sure some of that got into my lungs then too

I got home from the war in oct '70 and weed was hard to come by around here in northeast oklahoma except during late summer to early fall then some could be found. Some of us would stock up knowing full well that here in a few weeks shit weed would be all that could be found if even it could. Then raygun and his goons came in the doors to the whitehouse and almost like overnight you could get all the weed you wanted no matter the season. Cocaine and crank as well as pills too. I seen it, I witnessed it and no one is going to convince me that the raygun goons weren't behind it all. During the '70s cocaine and meth was not to be found around these parts. A little here and there but for the most part that was something we only read about in hightimes magazine.


Vietnam turned us on to weed but raygun turned us on to the coke, crank and pills

[Octafish]

9. Sam Kinnison mentioned that on Saturday Night Live

The late comedian was hosting Saturday Night Live and got to talking about the cocaine epidemic, particularly crack. AG Ed Meese was leading a huge crackdown on the weed, which encouraged traffickers to switch to more lucrative and infinitely more dangerous illicit substances.

"They've taken the pot, there is no more pot. You can't get any more pot. If you give us back the pot, we'll forget about the crack."

NBC censors bleeped the comment for West Coast viewers.

SOURCE: "The Clothes Have No Emperor" by Paul Slansky

[madokie]

13. Sam was just coming into his own when the tragic accident happened that took his and his new wifes

life. On their honeymoon if I remember correctly. We around here thought of him as native tulsan but he really wasn't.
He was unique.
I didn't pick up on his misogynistic streak until later

I loved his fire and brimstone delivery that I'd seen so many times in the southern baptist churches I was raised on

[olddots]

2. was Wolfey there with cool graphics ?

I don't trust CNN or the "war on drugs" claims .

[RedCappedBandit]

3. Which will of course have no measurable effect on the availability of weed

Waste of time and resources.

[madokie]

5. If the shit from there is still like it used to be

it may not be so bad that it was intercepted as it was.

[In_The_Wind]

7. Made in the USA is better.

[Iggo]

8. Legalize it.

[JaneyVee]

10. Booooo.

[FLPanhandle]

11. If legalized, we could be exporters of some fine weed

Instead of people smuggling in bad stuff.

[B Calm]

12. Damn that's a waste of cheap pot.