The Tucson Smoke-Out Hits the Auction Block
Mar 11th, 2010 | By Michel Marizco | Category: General News, Politics
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THE BORDER REPORT
Found this one during a casual search of the Federal contract solicitation page. The Homeland Security Department is requesting bids for narcotics incineration here in Tucson. I’ll ignore, for the moment, that they’re simply repeating steps from DEA who already has an incineration facility here in town. Writing about the Feds would be less entertaining if they worked efficiently, after all.
Homeland is asking for a price breakdwon to burn 215,000 pounds of dope per year; that’s 210,000 pounds of weed and 5,000 pounds of “hard” narcs; synthetics, meth, steroids, coke, and heroin.
They want the price breakdown by the raw pound, which is an interesting way to look at narcotics. Unfortunately, they don’t cite what past poundage costs were, so I’ll throw the question out; how much does it cost to burn a pound of Sinaloan schwag?
Real cheap, Bro, just throw it in a pipe. Lot of happy stoners that way.
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Aqui no pasa nada… http://www.proceso.com.mx/rv/modHome/detalleExclusiva/77351
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Lets see,a border patrol agents makes between 31 k and 50k a year , times howmany thousands of agents? Plus all thier benefits.
Plus all thier trucks they run into the ground …….hmmm no big deal,let the tax payer pay for it. We only have
record deficts as far as the eye can see. End prohibition on drugs.
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They just need to distribute all the drugs to the addicts for free, everytime they do a large bust, continue doing so. That will deffinitely interrupt the Cartels sales.
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yeah well remember carlos not only are the cartels making money off the sale of drugs so is the US cmon that will never happen its all about money for both sides
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from US Budget 2009 in millions of dollars:
Total, ICE/Immigration and Customs Enforcement 4,228.0
Total, ICE/Automation Modernization, Immigration and Customs Enforcement 57.0
Total, ICE/Construction 5.0
Total, CBP/Customs and Border Protection 7,715.0
Total, CBP/Automation Modernization, Customs and Border Protection 256.0
Total, CBP/Construction, Customs and Border Protection 403.0
Total, CBP/Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology 745.0
Total, CBP/Air and Marine Interdiction, Operations, Maintenance, and Procur 354.0
Total: 13.7 billion, How many pounds of drugs were seized in 2009?
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@vintotinto,
I’m getting the numbers from CBP at some point today but on average, they’re capturing about one million pounds a year, mostly weed.
For perspective, in 2007, the GAO stated that 275 metric tons of coke were shipped to Mexico specifically for delivery to the U.S. From that, 37 metric tons were seized by law enforcement in both countries. Roughly 15 percent. That, I presume, included the 3.3 tons that were recovered from the Yucatan Peninsula after a CIA-owned plane crashed there.
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@ Michel
if it’s a million pounds then it cost $13,700 per pound to seize and destroy. Maybe they should just consider buying it and destroying it. Wouldn’t it be more cost effective?
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so completely off the subject, im right now on I-85 as i type this, being a wingman for a friend of mine cuz he didnt want to roll on his own to puerto penasco, and her friend doesnt listen to hip/hop and r&b, the hell kind of Broad is she?!?!?!?!??!???!?!!?
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@vinotinto,
To be fair, that money goes into illegal immigration seizures and customs laws enforcement, too.
No, somewhere there is a number specifically for the burning, by pound, of dope. I want that number.
@drift,
Quit bragging! And have a great trip.
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I agree Michel…era pura broma
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What will this do to the U.S.’s carbon foot-print?
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