It's the second sophisticated smuggling tunnel between Tijuana and San Diego that agents have discovered this month, and it's more evidence that a new cartel has muscled into Tijuana.

Federal authorities are questioning suspected drug smugglers to learn more about a tunnel trafficking operation uncovered on Thanksgiving Day. It's the second sophisticated smuggling tunnel between Tijuana and San Diego that agents have discovered this month, and it's more evidence that a new cartel has muscled into Tijuana.

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Joey Burger was 14 when his naturalist parents moved from Santa Cruz to settle in the coastal forest of Humboldt County.

Local hippies and homesteaders welcomed the new kid in the woods. They schooled him in the regional art – growing marijuana.

"It was never looked upon as a bad thing," Burger said.

Except before the fall harvests, when helicopters full of narcotics officers whipped through the sky. Neighbors rushed "to call their friends to make sure they were OK," he said.

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Mehr als 600 Meter lang ist ein Tunnel, den Drogenschmuggler von Mexiko bis in die USA gegraben haben. Jetzt hat die Polizei den Gang entdeckt - und dabei mehr als 20 Tonnen Marihuana sichergestellt.

Die Drogen wurden auf Schienen unter der amerikanisch-mexikanischen Grenze hindurchgefahren: Die Behörden in San Diego in Kalifornien haben zum zweiten Mal in diesem Monat einen Tunnel zum Schmuggel von Drogen entdeckt. Der Tunnel ist 670 Meter lang und führt von einer Küche in einem Haus in Tijuana in Mexiko zu einem Lagerhaus im Industriegebiet Otay Mesa in San Diego, wie Mike Unzueta, Leiter der Ermittlungen bei der US-Einwanderungs- und Zollbehörde in San Diego, mitteilte.

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Authorities seized more than 20 tons of marijuana in connection with a cross-border tunnel equipped with a rail car, fluorescent lighting and a ventilation system -- the second discovery of a major underground drug passage in San Diego this month, authorities said Friday.

The tunnel found Thursday is 2,200 feet long -- more than seven football fields -- and runs from the kitchen of a home in Tijuana, Mexico, to two warehouses in San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial district, said Mike Unzueta, head of investigations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego.

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As Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris sweat out the ballot counting to determine California’s next attorney general, perhaps no one is more anxious than advocates for medical marijuana shops.

Within the state medical marijuana industry, Cooley, the Los Angeles County district attorney, is widely perceived as pot persona non grata.

It isn’t just Cooley’s aggressive prosecutions of alleged abuses in Los Angeles dispensaries that stir medical marijuana activists. There are also his persistent declarations that he considers medical pot dispensaries to be illegal retail sales outlets.

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On Broadway, in downtown Oakland, a small coffee shop called the Bulldog has a couple of round tables out on the sidewalk where people sit, read the paper and drink coffee, shaded by big blue umbrellas. Its neighbor, the Patient ID Center, looks like a pharmacy, with a small neon sign that glows “open” as people stream in and out buying their goods. To the unsuspecting eye, these look like regular businesses that you might find in any downtown city. It’s only when you look closer that you see the windows smattered with banners, posters and stickers that say “control and tax cannabis.”

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Legalisierung von Marihuana hatten die Kalifornier vergangene Woche abgelehnt

Der kalifornische Gouverneur Arnold Schwarzenegger steht Marihuana-Konsumenten tolerant gegenüber. "Es kümmert doch niemanden, ob du einen Joint rauchst oder nicht", sagte der ehemalige Hollywoodstar in einer US-Talkshow. Schwarzenegger hatte vor fünf Wochen einem Gesetz zugestimmt, demzufolge der Besitz von kleinen Mengen Marihuana nicht schärfer geahndet wird als ein Verkehrsdelikt.

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