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Medical Marijuana: Increased Applicants In Colorado Lead Law Enforcement To Questions Pot Sources

The Denver Post | Mike McPhee and Victoria Barbatelli | Posted 10.21.2009 | Denver

Read More: Marijuana, Weed Dispensaries, Drug Cartels, Colorado Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Dea, Denver News

Demand for medical marijuana in Colorado has grown so fast in the past few months that it has outstripped the production of legal "grow" operations an...

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Colorado Should Toughen Stance On Illegal Immigrants: GOP Lawmaker

The Denver Daily News | Gene Davis | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver

Read More: Marijuana, Colorado Immigration, Drug Cartels, Colorado GOP, Colorado State Legislature, Colorado, Dave Schultheis, Bill Ritter, Illegal Immgration, Denver News

Following this month's bust of 14,500 marijuana plants that allegedly were in part being grown by Mexican migrant workers, a Colorado Springs senator ...

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Aint Got The Do-Re-Mi: The Beginning of The End of The Californian Dream

Giles Slade | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drug Cartels, Drought, Forest Fires, Climate Change, Mexico, La Crisis, California Budget Crisis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics News
Giles Slade

A second punch -- an environmental right cross -- is headed straight for California's chin. There's already insufficient water, with more droughts, heat waves and mega-fires on their way.

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NAFTA And The Drug Cartels: "A Deal Made In Narco Heaven" -- Exclusive Excerpt and Live Chat at 3pm EST

Ryan Grim | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drug Cartels, This Is Your Country on Drugs, Drug War, Nafta, Mexico Drug Cartels, Nafta Mexico, Mexico, Ryan Grim, NAFTA Drug War, NAFTA Drugs, Mexico Drug Violence, Mexico Drug Wars, Politics News
Ryan Grim

The NAFTA debate was difficult enough without having to talk about the sprawling Mexican drug trade and its attendant corruption. And how NAFTA would also end up benefiting the cartels. So President Clinton ordered his people not to talk about it.

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US Police Will Train Mexican Drug Officials In Cartel Fight

USA Today | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Us Mexico Drug Trafficking, Drug Cartels, Mexican Drug Cartels, Us Mexico Drug Wars, Foreign Affairs, Mexico Drug Cartels, Mexico, Mexico Drug Violence, Mexico Drug Wars, Advocacy, Mexico's Drug War, World News

The U.S. and Mexico are drawing up plans to dispatch up to 300 former U.S. law enforcement officials to Mexico later this year to train thousands of M...

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Mexican Police Arrest 44 At Drug Raid During Family Baptism

Times Online | Graham Keeley | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Cartels, Mexico Drug War, Mexico Drug, Mexico Drug Cartels, Mexico Police, Mexico, Drug War, Drug Wars, Mexico Drug Wars, World News

Mexican federal police arrested 44 alleged members of the drugs cartel at a family baptism in Morelia, capital of the western state of Michoacan....

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DRUG CARTEL VIDEOS Flood YouTube

usatoday.com | Posted 05.13.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Cartels, Drug Cartel Video, World News

The violence among Mexican drug cartels is not filling just the streets of Mexican border towns: It's also spilling into gruesome online videos and ch...

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Washington Post Launches Series On Mexico's Drug War

The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Trade, Drug Cartels, Mexican Army, Mexico Drug Cartels, Drug-Related Deaths, President Felipe Calderon, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Drug War, Mexico, Mexico Corruption, War on Drugs, Washington Post Mexico, Washington Post, Mexico's Drug War, World News

The Washington Post has launched a year-long series -- "Mexico at War" -- that will take a closer look into the Mexican drug war and offer snapshots o...

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Mexican Drug Cartels, Hezbollah Strengthen Ties

Yediot Ahronot | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Mexico Drug Cartels Hizbullah, Drug Cartels, Mexico Drug Cartels, Mexico, Mexico Drugs, Hezbollah, Hizbullah, Mexico Drug Wars, Lebanon, World News

Ties between Lebanon's Shiite Hizbullah organization and Mexican drug cartels have been strengthening over the past few years, the Washington Times ...

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Cocaine Cartels: how Much Are They Actually Worth?

CNBC | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Drug Cartels, Cocaine Cartels, How Much Are Drug Cartels Worth, Business News

Everybody in the news business knows you can't tell the same story in the same way every year, and if you're going to try, you need to disguise it wit...

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Defeating Narco-Terrorism

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drug Cartels, Drugs, Hugo Chavez, Mexico, Mycoherbicides, Heroin, Hamas, Hezbollah, Cannabis, Venezuela, National Security, Middle East, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Afghanistan, Narcotics, Un, Cocaine, Narco-Terrorism, World News
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld

The nexus between transnational criminal organizations and terrorist groups does not end with illegal drugs. Yet, U.S. and international law-enforcement agencies overlook the connections between them.

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Mexico Drug Gangs Buy Public Support

Los Angeles Times | Tracy Wilkinson | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

Read More: Mexico Drug Gangs, Drug Gang Violence, Drug Cartels, Independencia, Drug Gangs, Mexico Drug War, Monterrey Mexico, Mexico Drug Cartels, Mexico, Mexico Drug Violence, Mexico Drug Wars, World News

Reporting from Monterrey, Mexico -- The small houses of the Independencia neighborhood climb a hill that rises from the bone-dry Santa Catarina riverb...

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Mexico's Drug Wars Reach Cancun

Los Angeles Times | Ken Ellingwood | Posted 04.02.2009 | World

Read More: Cancun Mexico, Drug Gang Violence, Cancun, Drug Cartels, Drug Smugglers, Francisco Velasco, Drug Gangs, Drug Violence, Gang Violence, Mexico, Mexico Drug Wars, Drug Wars, Drug Wars Violence, World News

Reporting from Cancun, Mexico -- The suspect cruised around in an SUV that had been reported stolen. He toted corrido music glorifying drug smugglers ...

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Vicious Drug Turf War Turning Tijuana Into Killing Zone

Daily Telegraph | Philip Sherwell | Posted 12.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Drug Cartels, Mexico, Drug War, Tijuana Drug Wars, Tijuana, Mexico Drug Wars, Home News

The four men in bulletproof vests, Kalashnikovs held casually at their sides, crossed the street to Tijuana's Crazy Banana pool hall so calmly that on...

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