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?