More than 2,200 people have been arrested during a 22-month investigation aimed at thwarting Mexican drug cartel efforts to distribute narcotics across the U.S. and funnel guns and money back south of the border, federal authorities said Thursday.

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DEA Caribbean Corridor Strike Force (CCSF) agents, working jointly with DEA New York OCDETF agents, last Friday arrested five suspected Honduran smugglers and seized 66 bales of cocaine in San Juan, Puerto Rico, following an at-sea interdiction of the fishing vessel Two Brothers on May 24th, announced Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Caribbean Division, and Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The 87-foot, Panamanian flagged, fishing vessel was carrying 3,269 pounds of cocaine with an estimated wholesale value of approximately $46 million.

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A coalition patrol on Tuesday discovered approximately 900 kilograms (1,984 pounds) of marijuana in a truck in southern Afghanistan, while a separate operation led to the arrest of a Taliban commander and several others.

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For the first time in US history, there is a state initiative to legalize marijuana possession, use, and production for all adults: the California Control & Tax Cannabis Initiative, which will come to a vote in November. Unfortunately, there are some "marijuana activists" who are aggressively opposing the brilliant initiative. In this article I will address some of the myths being told about this initiative, and why I fully support it.

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Die Zahl der Opfer, die Heroin aus Afghanistan jedes Jahr in Westeuropa umbringt, übersteigt nach UN-Angaben die Zahl aller in dem Land getöteten NATO-Soldaten.

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Sie kommen aus Südamerika und sind auf dem Weg nach Europa und Asien: Drogen, die in Westafrika zwischengelagert werden. Jetzt haben Ermittler in Gambia eine Ladung Kokain im Wert von einer Milliarde US-Dollar entdeckt.

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Security authorities in The Gambia have seized about $1bn worth of cocaine on transit from South America to Europe. The authorities also seized large quantities of cash and arms, and arrested over 12 suspected drug traffickers, reports claim. This comes after last week’s drug bust in Liberia and a series of arrests in Uganda involving drug traffickers.

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he BBC reports today, in a news piece titled 'Two tonnes of cocaine seized in The Gambia' , that:

'At least two tonnes of cocaine with a street value estimated at $1bn has been seized in The Gambia, bound for Europe.'

Similar reports have run in number of other outlets including AFP (Billion Dollar cocaine seizure in Gambia), Reuters , the Daily Mail, and numerous others. There is a discrepancy in the reporting in the quantity seized, which varies from 2 to 2.5 tonnes, but all report the 1 billion dollar street value estimate, with the exception of PA that does not mention any street value figure, and also puts the size of the seizure at 2100 kg.

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