Beautiful BC – Narco-Province – YouTube HB
Beautiful BC – Narco-Province – YouTube HB – British Columbia is a Narco Province! BC Bud is a generic term for several varieties of potent cannabis grown in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The term has almost become a brand name, especially in California, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho and Washington, to where most of the province’s cannabis is exported. The United States Drug Enforcement Administration considers BC production to be a major problem, given the porous United States-Canada border. • British Columbia’s top commodity is Marijuana. *Source: Skelton, C. (2001, July 7). BC’s top commodity: Marijuana. The Vancouver Sun. billion Marijuana .7 billion Construction .6 billion Logging and forest products .7 billion Mining .4 billion Manufacturing .1 billion Agriculture There may be an unseen force that has been sustaining growth and holding up the real estate market — and, indeed, the economy — in British Columbia through the current global downturn. Researchers claim that the marijuana growth industry employs between 90000 — 150000 people in the province directly. The Economist pegged the drug trade in BC (with Vancouver as its distribution hub) at greater than Billion per year. This includes the importation of heroin and cocaine (which frequently serves as a form of payment for the receipt of BC pot) by more than 130 gangs, who vie for control of distribution and importation on the streets of Greater Vancouver daily, resulting in a record-breaking murder spree. BC has been the primary source …
8 reasons addiction carries a stigma
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Many patients who are sent to traditional drug treatment programs that are abstinence-focused end up neither “clean and sober” nor receiving good psychotherapy. How might things be different? In many cases, the use or misuse of substances by patients …
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Govt outlines HSBC ties to drug money laundering – KWES NewsWest 9 …
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department on Tuesday alleged that British bank HSBC violated the Bank Secrecy Act in connection with the laundering of money from narcotics drug traffickers in Mexico and intentionally allowed prohibited transactions with …
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Police blotter: Dec. 11, 2012
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Battery Robert Tyler Washington, 60, of 2200 E. Court St., Apt. 406, was arrested at 1 p.m. Saturday by Kankakee police for battery after an incident on a Metro bus in which he reportedly shoved his forearm and wallet in the driver's face. … He was …
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