Meth Seizures Increase on Texas-Mexico Border
For the second consecutive year, seizures of methamphetamine in the Laredo customs district — the country’s busiest land port — climbed significantly, an indication that drug cartels continue to bank on sales of the drug in the U.S. despite vigilant enforcement efforts on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border.
And with the cartels’ ability to produce methamphetamine year-round in Mexico, drug enforcement officials say shipments of the narcotic are unlikely to ebb even if they ratchet up targeted efforts against such shipments.
Customs and Border Protection agents working the Laredo district, which extends from Del Rio to Brownsville, seized more ...
Comments (3)
Clay Moore
The author's repeated referral to methamphetamine as a "narcotic" shows a basic ignorance of the drug's properties and dangers. Narcotics specifically refers to sleep inducing drugs such as heroin and morphine. Here is from the DEA's website fact sheet: "Amphetamines are stimulants that speed up the body’s system. Many are legally prescribed and used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)." In other words, the compete opposite of a narcotic.
Currently methamphetamine is not legally prescribed to adults for ADHD, so take one guess who they are prescribed to. If you said children, you'd be correct. No country on Earth prescribes so many mind altering drugs to children as the United States, and it has been going on now for decades. What do you think these speed addicted kids need as they get older? Where do they get it from, if they're no longer able to get prescriptions? Any rational inquiry into the causes of drug abuse and addiction should at least look at the native contributing factors before putting all the blame on the Mexican cartels, not that they are absolved of their criminal actions either.
Joshua W. Scott via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Everyone knew this was going to happen when they restricted pseudoephedrine sales, right?
Bologna Vest
Walter White's profitability goes up with every border seizure.