Sunday, July 22, 2007

Just asking

Why are there no local reports on the opium - poppy cultivation, morphine and heroin manufacturing in Afghanistan?

You might want to check out the Santa Barbara News-Press for their up to date information on the critical problems with Afghanistan's opium crop and narco-trafficing . Of special interest to the Laura Schlessinger family. (Deryk Schlessinger and Lewis Bishop).

UPDATE: 7/22/07 "Are parents or gangs in control?" by Travis Armstrong. Does Travis recall South Central back in the day? Does he write about the drug business part of this? Santa Barbara has no heroin? Ignorance is bliss and a great excuse to recycle bashing-blaming the same people?

DRUG CARTEL MURDER IN SANTA BARBARA
Sheriff Investigates Drug Cartel in County
Body Found in Sleeping Bag, Largest-Ever Pot Bust Linked


November 1, 2007
[...] Since border operations have tightened, Mexican drug cartels have resorted to different tactics in getting their drugs to California, Brown said, which means that, while grows used to be common only in Northern California, more grows are being discovered throughout Southern California as well. “It’s a very lucrative business,” he said. And dangerous. “The individuals tending these grows are typically armed and prepared to defend their crops,” Brown said. “The murder of Adan Ruiz, regardless of his involvement with these illegal marijuana operation, illustrates the vicious nature of the persons involved in marijuana cultivation.” [...]

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