"I volunteered for the Army on my birthday
They draft the white trash first 'round here anyway
I done two tours of duty in Vietnam
I came home with a brand new plan
I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico
I just plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road
And noe the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air
I wake up screaming like I'm back over there
I learned a thing or two from Charlie, don't you know?
You better stay away from Copperhead Road"
~ Steve Earl
How To Smuggle Cannabis
By Matt Mernagh - Thursday, June 15 2006
Your very own Mission Impossible
Smuggling is depicted by the law as wrong and detrimental to the ?national? interests. In fact, smuggling is the exchange of goods and labor where people want certain things. The arrangements are all consenting and to the benefit of all parties ? except governments. The purpose of government is to exercise its monopoly of force to control the tastes, appetites and perogatives of the ordinary citizen. To enforce this, governments create borders to keep ?outside? influences at bay.
The demands of people are expressed in the marketplace of goods and ideas, not by governments. So when considering the opportunity of a career in smuggling pot, know it is a noble calling: a craft, an art, a little bit of luck fraught with risk and more than a few pulse-racing moments.
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Alien Smugglers Use Ambulance Service to Get Past Checkpoint
Marfa, Texas – (Thursday, April 16, 2009)
A clever smuggling scheme in Presidio County, Texas, came to an abrupt end March 5, 2009, with the arrest of a Presidio man who had been using an ambulance service to transport illegal aliens past a Border Patrol checkpoint.
"Some were smoking Colitas while other were loading their guns. Blowing smoke from their six-shooters, spinning their barrels for fun. Contrabandistas, banditos alike -- We're the Free Mexican Air Force and we're flyin' tonight. High in the hills we are harvesting sweet sensimilla. Yeah the law wants it all 'cause they know that the wild weed can free ya. And freedom for us is a prison for the rulers of might. That's why the Free Mexican Air Force -- Mescalito riding his white horse -- Yeah, the Free Mexican Air Force is flyin' tonight Flyin' so high- yi- yee...Flyin' tonight!"
~ Peter Rowan
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2,500 U.S. citizens are arrested abroad. One third of the arrests are on drug-related charges. Many of those arrested assumed as U.S. citizens that they could not be arrested. From Asia to Africa, Europe to South America, U.S. citizens are finding out the hard way that drug possession or trafficking equals jail in foreign countries.
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Smuggling 800 kilograms of hashish from Morocco to the Spanish coast
Mandatory death sentence for Samantha Orobator, 20, who was in possession of 1.5lb (680g) of heroin when she was arrested at Wattay airport in Laos
Langley B.C. trucker Robert Shannon
is going to federal prison for 20 years
Shannon’s fleet of trucks carried pipes with marijuana stashed inside, trailers with false walls and drugs in RVs and even a church van.
"You're talking about tens of thousands of pounds of cocaine.
Tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana,”
ICE Agent in Charge Leigh Winchell.
Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs. The categories were once reversed. Opiates were legal in America before the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, and members of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union, who campaigned against alcohol during the day, drank their valued "women's tonics" at night, products laced with laudanum
(tincture of opium).
Zoe Shepherd could spend nearly 50 years in a South American jail.
The 19-year old Brit is awaiting trial in Bolivia accused of smuggling 49 grams of cocaine.If she is found guilty, she could be sentenced to one year behind bars for each gram
“People inside these prisons are very vulnerable.“They are lawless and a dangerous place to be because guards have very little to do with the inside.“They stay on the exterior to stop prisoners absconding.”
~ Matthew Pinches
Prisons Abroad spokesman
"Of all serious crimes under the law, smuggling...
least violates the consciences of men.
It is a crime against law and against government,
but not against morality.
The smuggler robs no man.
He buys goods honestly in one market
and sells them honestly in another.
His offense is against an arbitrary regulation of government....
he simply fails to pay its demands.
Many men otherwise honest
are unable to see any moral turpitude in smuggling.
...government, in exacting toll, plays the part of the highwayman."
-- "The Kaasan Bay 'Find,'" editorial,
The Oregonian, Jan. 21, 1886, p. 2
