Mexican drug gangs 'spread to every region of US'

[Adsos Letter]

Source: BBC

Mexican drug gangs have expanded their activities in the US with heroin production doubling in 2008, the US justice department says in a report.

Despite US funding for the war on drugs, trade in marijuana, ecstasy and methamphetamine also grew, the National Drug Threat Assessment said.

The report found that Mexican groups were active in every region of the US.

Gangs were moving an estimated $40bn (£27bn) in cash back into Mexico across the border each year, it added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8588509.stm

[aquart]

1. LEGALIZE.

Drop the profit into the dirt.

[Turbineguy]

2. Those gangs will fight legalization

it would be like the insurance companies and HCR. But with shootings.

[aquart]

6. Yeah, but that's a fight worth having.

And it ain't like they ain't shooting now.

[Adsos Letter]

4. I agree.

[Fumesucker]

3. Mission accomplished..

Now the government has more reason to cut back on civil liberties.

[Turbineguy]

7. But that's always been the problem with drugs

it's not just an individual choice without wider consequences.

[Taitertots]

5. Who is surprised?

We refuse to make an effort to close the border, yet complain about the obvious results.

[ThomWV]

8. depends on how you define a region