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Arizona sees large rise in marijuana seizures
05-28-07|Dallas News

In a year of ongoing drought, grass has been greener in Arizona – for law enforcement agencies.

They're having a bountiful year harvesting marijuana loads from smugglers.

According to a program that coordinates drug control efforts, there has been a 25 percent jump in the number of reported pot seizures in the state from Oct. 1 through April 30 over the same period a year earlier.

In fact, pot seizures are up across the Southwest so far this fiscal year, except in New Mexico. Seizures in West and South Texas have shot up by 54 percent and have increased 14 percent in California.

"We've added quite a few agents, we've increased our technology and added eyes and ears due to the National Guard's presence" on the border, said Gustavo Soto, spokesman for the patrol's Tucson sector, which covers all the Arizona-Mexico border except an area around Yuma.

Though apprehensions of illegal immigrants have decreased because of more deterrence, narcotics smugglers aren't as easily deterred, Mr. Soto said.

"They're more intent on bringing in their illicit cargo. We're just having more and more success."

 

reggie_the_dog

more and more is grown at home. Old estimates I have read put the percentage of home grown cannabis consumed in the USA at 60%. I have the impression that this goes up each year. We grow outdoor and indoor in the USA. On my last trip to Chicago this year I could not find outdoor grown of any variety and the indoor grown that was everywhere supposedly came from Chicago and its suburbs. I wonder why the mexican cartels don't get on hash making. Yes the Mexicans can grow great weed, but when it is bricked, the seeds pop, and it goes stale it is no longer great. Hash can stay good longer in storage. If they left it as pure hash, uncut, the mexican cartels would be able to compete with kind buds for market share. It is also easier to smuggle hash because it takes up less space. Does anyone know if this is happening already?