Mexico marijuana

The year 1995 produced the largest number of Rohypnol seizures by the DEA thus far, with more than 160,000 illegal pills confiscated. In one instance, over 52,000 Rohypnol pills, concealed in plastic bags located inside a car door, were seized by the Louisiana State Police. Also in 1995, the U.S. Border Patrol seized over 57,000 Rohypnol tablets (along with 53 pounds of marijuana) en route from Mexico to Florida. 

LSD guru Dr. Timothy Leary and his daughter were denied entry into Mexico and were driving back into Texas when their car was stopped and searched by U.S. Customs officials. They found some marijuana in the car and on the daughter s person. Leary was indicted under the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act. 

September 21 The U.S. Customs Department launches Operation Intercept. For a period of two weeks every vehicle crossing the border between the United States and Mexico is searched. Traffic bogs down for miles, and businesses on both sides of the border are severely impacted. The operation is stopped, but Mexico agrees to more aggressively pursue marijuana traffickers. 

Mexico produces an estimated 6,700-8,600 metric tons of marijuana an-... 

Black slaves probably brought the knowledge of how to smoke marijuana with them to Brazil, and from there, the practice traveled to Mexico and the United States..— The first definite record of marijuana as a plant in the New World dates from 1545, when Spaniards introduced it from Chile. 25 its use as an intoxicant appears to have been kept hidden by most users and was probably limited during much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 

Uses Paraquat is a colorless, odorless, white or pale yellow crystalline solid that is hygroscopic. Paraquat is a quaternary nitrogen herbicide that is widely used for broadleaf weed control. It is a quick-acting, nonselective compound that destroys green plant tissue on contact and by translocation within the plant. It has been employed for killing marijuana in the United States and Mexico. It also is used as a crop desiccant and defoliant, as well as an aquatic herbicide. Paraquat is highly persistent in the soil environment, with a reported field half-life of greater than 1,000 days.5-7,17... 

In the Journal of Psychedelic Drugs (vol. 11, p. 78), Dr. Jose Luis Diaz from the University of Mexico presents suggestive but uncertified evidence that marijuana may have been known to the Ndhuas and other New World tribes before the arrival of the Spaniards. Whether or not Cannabis was growing in the Americas already, the Spanish seem to have taken their own to Chile in 1545 and then to Peru in 1554. 

Marijuana from Jamaica and Mexico soon became a rarity in the U.S. Massive amounts arrived from Colombia—selling wholesale in New York for about 300 a pound and to users for 25- 35 per ounce, and sometimes more. This trade carried on surprisingly well one Colombian official even... 

Some traditional peoples turn psychedelic visions into art. For example, the yarn paintings of the Huichol Indians of Mexico come directly from peyote sessions. Other artists find visions in their own imagination but use psychoactive drugs to help them do the work of translating their visions into art. Diego Rivera, the best-known Mexican artist of the twentieth century, was a user of marijuana.. The famous American abstract painter Jackson Pol-... 

Paraquat A chemical herbicide used to kill unwanted plants. In recent years government agencies have sprayed it from the air on marijuana fields, especially in Mexico. 

In Mexico, farmers insert slivers of acote (a type of pine) through the root of the plant below ground level when the plant is about four feet high. They claim chat this prevents the formation of seeds and gives the marijuana a pine flavor, both highly unlikely. 

The Tepenua of Oaxaca, Mexico produce extremely potent marijuana by growing the plants in a hostile environment and by... 

THC is extremely low considering the price. The highest amount given in table 6 (11.5%) is not even twice the amount present in good quality marijuana from Africa, India, Mexico or Colombia, and it is accompanied by so much CBD that the high will be significantly diminished. In fact, there is almost always more CBD... 

Canavalia maritima This plant is reportedly used by sailors as a marijuana substitute in Mexico pyrrolidine alkaloids have been found in the pods (Diaz 1975). 

Leonurus sibiricus. Known as marihuaniUa, this Old Wirld plant has come to be smoked as a marijuana substitute in Chiapas, Mexico (Diaz 1975). The plant apparently contains alkaloids, but no psychoactive principle is known. Seeds and infusions of Leonurus artemisia, L. heterophyllus, L. sibiricus and L. tartarica are used in Chinese medicine as emmenagogues, diuretics and vasodilators (Chin Keng 1992 Hu etal. 1980 Iseys 1976). 

According to the DBA, drug-trafficking organizations based in Mexico supply most of the foreign marijuana available in the United States. However, countries in South America (primarily Colombia) and Asia (including Cambodia, Thailand, India, and Pakistan) also cultivate and ship marijuana to the United States. 

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