BajaNomad - Tons of marijuana found floating in ocean waters off Los Cabos

Tons of marijuana found floating in ocean waters off Los Cabos

BajaNews - 11-6-2011 at 12:19 PM

http://www.pri.org/stories/world/video-tons-of-marijuana-fou...

04 November, 2011
Reuters

Mexican authorities conducted a massive, multi-day search of beaches and open water near Los Cabos after boaters reported pulling packages of marijuana out of the water.

Officials in Mexico have seized more than two tons of marijuana found floating off the coast of tourist hotspot Los Cabos.

Mexican Marines spent two days scouring the ocean and found 200 packages of marijuana floating about 25 miles offshore from the city in the normally peaceful state of Southern Baja California.

Law enforcement authorities are trying to link the abandoned marijuana to the drug cartels that have been active throughout Mexico. So far, drug-related violence has killed more than 45,000 people since Mexican President Felipe Calderón turned up the pressure on the drug cartels in 1996.

[Edited on 11-6-2011 by BajaNews]

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El Jefe - 11-6-2011 at 12:28 PM

Sea Weed!

Woooosh - 11-6-2011 at 01:03 PM

I thought Los Cabos was not in the drug trafficking routes? When did this start?

desertcpl - 11-6-2011 at 01:14 PM

maybe I should go down and help them clean up

Woooosh - 11-6-2011 at 01:19 PM

The only worthwhile object I have every found on my dawn-patrol dog walks is a MRE (meal ready to eat). It was and I did. What would anyone would do with a whole bale of commercial dirtweed?

:saint:

Cypress - 11-6-2011 at 01:37 PM

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Originally posted by Woooosh
What would anyone do with a whole bale of commercial dirtweed? :saint:

"The highway goes on forever and the party never ends." I'd take it to the bank. :biggrin:

Hook - 11-6-2011 at 01:51 PM

".......since Mexican President Felipe Calderón turned up the pressure on the drug cartels in 1996."

Uh, that's not correct. He hasnt been in office for 15 years.

Why, back in 1996, it was business as usual with the PRI...........

toneart - 11-6-2011 at 02:00 PM

Two years ago, while fishing between Punto Chivato and Santa Inez Islands, we saw a bale bobbing. We gave it a wide berth.

Whomever was looking for it, be it police, navy or cartel, the consequence to the civilian interceptor could be dire. :?:

dtbushpilot - 11-6-2011 at 02:23 PM

Mi esposa bonita and I rode the beach all the way to Cabo Pulmo the next morning just in case some of it drifted North around the corner. We didn't find anything, just wanting to do our civic duty and help the local law enforcement officials keep the beaches safe and clean.......you know me, always looking to lend a helping hand. :lol:

Phil S - 11-6-2011 at 02:44 PM

Maybe one of the drug cartels mans submarines now, and is siinking the competition.

Woooosh - 11-6-2011 at 02:50 PM

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Originally posted by Phil S
Maybe one of the drug cartels mans submarines now, and is siinking the competition.

low value cargo compared to coke, meth and heroin. Probably just testing their new smuggling routes. Nothing has stopped their Baja Norte panga-shuttle for human smuggling- so why not move drugs that way? Well, obviously they already are.

tiotomasbcs - 11-6-2011 at 03:22 PM

Sea Weed! I'm still laffin! Tio

Bajahowodd - 11-6-2011 at 05:21 PM

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Originally posted by Woooosh

Quote:

Originally posted by Phil S
Maybe one of the drug cartels mans submarines now, and is siinking the competition.

Anyone who has spent any time on the beach in Cabo knows that in the last couple of years, (did not Mexico de-criminalize marijuana?) has been approached by beach vendors selling pot.

As for trafficking route, despite the recent shootout outside Cabo, BCS has been quite quiet. Anyone traveling the highway North of La Paz has probably noticed that the long time military checkpoint just above Centenario/ Comitan, has often not been manned by armed military. What does that tell us?

Scientific question

Dave - 11-6-2011 at 07:36 PM

What does seawater do to pot?

Could that be what makes surfers speak the way they do or are they just natural born idiots?

surfer jim - 11-6-2011 at 08:10 PM

:rolleyes:

Don't know answer to first question.

Yes and Yes are correct answers to second question.

dtbushpilot - 11-6-2011 at 08:52 PM

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Originally posted by Dave
What does seawater do to pot?

Could that be what makes surfers speak the way they do or are they just natural born idiots?

Dude, that's like....uhhh...like you know....uhhh......like...what?....

BajaBlanca - 11-6-2011 at 08:56 PM

seaweed

:lol:

captain4tuna - 11-7-2011 at 09:37 AM

Sea Weed....bloody hilarious..... :lol:

DENNIS - 11-7-2011 at 09:44 AM

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Originally posted by Dave
What does seawater do to pot?

This is cutting edge science at work. They're growing it out there...just like Kelp. It's a new Hydroponics discovery that was developed in Sewege Treatment Hyacinth Ponds.

bajabass - 11-7-2011 at 12:07 PM

Were there some happy dorado schooled up under the bales or what?? :lol:

dtutko1 - 11-7-2011 at 01:58 PM

Save the bales!

mcfez - 11-7-2011 at 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by El Jefe
Sea Weed!

mulegemichael - 11-7-2011 at 05:09 PM

over the decades, have found so, so many bales of pot on the beach at the east cape...this is NOT a new deal!....on a christmas eve maybe 30 years ago, we found two bales up on the beach at hotel punta colorada and buried 4 or 5 bricks, marking them with sticks stuck in the sand....the next morning the military was combing the beach everywhere....those bricks are still buried...at least most of them...too bad gps wasn't a thing at that time...my, oh my, have i traversed those sand dunes over the past few decades.

mulegemichael - 11-7-2011 at 05:13 PM

no.....seawater totally screws up processed pot....if the seawater hits it, it's done...that fast...it cannot be recovered....but the bales that they are processing are almost watertight now with all the plastic wrap and crap...usually around half of the bales one would find on the beach are destroyed as a result of saltwater intrusion.

paranewbi - 11-7-2011 at 05:48 PM

The name is actually 'Drift weed'...my kids found a kilo on the beach by shipwrecks in '95. It tends to turn dark if not black and tastes sorta bad after floating for a while. It is the main market sales stock in places like Belize and the Carib side of Guatemala. If you spend any time in places like Placencia or one of the cays this is what the rasta/garfuna guys on the beach have for sale. Driftweed mahn.

Oh, and I didn't know the kids had found the stuff in '95 until 3 months after we got back to the states. They packed it in their dirty laundry bag and tossed it up to me with all the other camp equipment to pack on top of the '71 vw bus in a plastic tarp.
They dogged my van at the tecate border and the dog never flinched and neither did I...ignorance is bliss. Just about killed my kids though when I found out.

Spearo - 11-7-2011 at 06:35 PM

Mota del la mar. In my experience you need two gaffs. And some amigos. And then some fish tacos.

desertcpl - 11-7-2011 at 07:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by paranewbi
The name is actually 'Drift weed'...my kids found a kilo on the beach by shipwrecks in '95. It tends to turn dark if not black and tastes sorta bad after floating for a while. It is the main market sales stock in places like Belize and the Carib side of Guatemala. If you spend any time in places like Placencia or one of the cays this is what the rasta/garfuna guys on the beach have for sale. Driftweed mahn.

Oh, and I didn't know the kids had found the stuff in '95 until 3 months after we got back to the states. They packed it in their dirty laundry bag and tossed it up to me with all the other camp equipment to pack on top of the '71 vw bus in a plastic tarp.
They dogged my van at the tecate border and the dog never flinched and neither did I...ignorance is bliss. Just about killed my kids though when I found out.

funny
had about the same thing happened to me coming from Gonzaga Bay, my son, RIP
about 20 yrs ago

slimshady - 11-8-2011 at 10:50 PM

Forget the batch of weed, I want the stacks of cash.

karenintx - 11-9-2011 at 09:58 AM

Square Groupers...migrating from the caribbean.