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“They found stacks and stacks of crisp, green U.S. $100 bills. In closets, in drawers, and suitcases. The attorney general’s office arranged the bills into a huge, bed-shaped platform, with Ben Franklin beaming from a thousand eyes. The first estimate by authorities put the take at $100 million. Then the bill-counting machines came in and the figure topped $200 million. It was the biggest drug cash seizure ever.”

The cash didn’t belong to the usual Mexican drug cartels but represented the profits of Chinese naturalized Mexican who set up shop directly across the Texas border and “who is accused of using his Asian contacts to illegally import the precursor drugs to make the new star of the U.S. and Mexican drug markets: methamphetamine.”

The article suggests that a teen crisis intervention of an entirely different complexion is needed to combat the influx of synthetic drugs surging across the border in the form of cheaply made and easily acquired synthetic meth. For the drug cartels competing for a portion of the addict market, their profit is considerably increased with the production of meth and the new heroin “Cheese” in comparison to the costs associated with cocaine or marijuana.

“Mexican cartels are not just supplying demand for meth, a Mexican official said, but creating it as well.
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“It is a diabolical plan by these criminal organizations” to increase sales of homemade amphetamines as an alternative to South American cocaine, which must be grown, processed, and transported thousands of miles.

“The lesson we get from this is very painful,” said Mr. Vasconcelos. “The American people have yet to wake up from the nightmare of synthetic drugs, especially the nightmare that has brought them to methamphetamines.”
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