U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Naco Port of Entry apprehended Emilia Reyes-Balderrama, a 54-year-old Mexican woman, after discovering more than 150 pounds of various drugs (estimated value more than $1.8 million) in her vehicle as she tried to enter the United States. While inspecting her Ford truck, officers found nine pounds of heroin (estimated value $126,000), nearly 80 pounds of cocaine (estimated value more than $725,000) and almost 64 pounds of methamphetamine (estimated valued nearly $987,000).
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Even though it’s easily circumnavigated with catapults, tunnels, drones, ramps, fat bribes and threats, border security has become a booming sector for the prohibition industrial complex. In 2012 alone, the U.S. government spent $18 billion on border and immigration enforcement agencies, more than on all other federal law enforcement agencies—including the FBI, DEA, etc—combined.
The only people who believe prohibition is working are the ones making a living by enforcing laws in it’s name and those amassing huge fortunes on the black market profits. This situation is wholly unsustainable and as history has shown us, conditions will continue to deteriorate until we finally, just like our forefathers, see sense and revert back to tried and tested methods of regulation. None of these substances, legal or illegal, are ever going to go away but we CAN decide to implement policies that do far more good than harm.
Prohibition causes massive crime and suffering, causes government/police corruption, causes America to have the highest prison population of any country in the history of the planet, causes Americans to lose all their rights and all their true core-values, causes the waste of trillions in taxpayer dollars, causes wars, violence and death, perpetuates racism, and funds both criminals and terrorists.