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How Do Drugs Cross the Border? Easy to Understand Slideshow

Nick Gillespie | 7.15.2009 2:50 PM

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  1. Tim Cavanaugh   16 years ago

    They left out the part where one drug dealer takes a switchblade, uses it to cut open a shrinkwrapped bag of white powder, takes a bit on his fingertip and tastes it, then turns to the other drug dealers, grins, and nods.

  2. Warty   16 years ago

    Re: drug lords' sexy women, my favorite telenovela.

  3. Mister DNA   16 years ago

    Since all the drugs are coming up from the Sierra Madre, I would think one of the steps in the process requires a Mexican outlaw to say, "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges."

  4. SpongePaul   16 years ago

    drugs dont have to cross the border, our best smoke is grown here, and we have university labs cranking out all the x mescaline dmt etc we can handle.
    and yes Virginia even at your local state U, the lab is being utilized for unlawful concoctions.

  5. bendover   16 years ago

    Can't we combine step one and two? Have the mule fuck the sexy druglord's wife.

  6. domoarrigato   16 years ago

    Have the mule fuck the sexy druglord's wife.

    misplaced modifiers can make you look like a homo.

  7. Skip Trace   16 years ago

    Wow! Mother Jones and the Onion. You guys rock!!! /end snark/

  8. Skip Trace   16 years ago

    "and yes Virginia even at your local state U, the lab is being utilized for unlawful concoctions."

    They grow weed at the South Pole. True story.

  9. shriek!   16 years ago

    Skip Trace, I wanna be a cool troll like you someday! /start snark/

  10. skrike   16 years ago

    shriek, I resemble your post!

  11. jtuf   16 years ago

    What exactly are the two people in icon # 2 doing?

  12. fucking   16 years ago

    fucking

  13. Chris Lawrence   16 years ago

    Er, why is the U.S.-Mexican border north of the Nueces River?

  14. HeadTater   16 years ago

    You guys forgot the step in Washington where inept politicians pass laws to make the drugs illegal, making the whole thing wildly profitable for the criminals.

  15. joshua corning   16 years ago

    When did writers for adult swim cartoons start working for the Onion?

  16. joshua corning   16 years ago

    Have the mule fuck the sexy druglord's wife.

    misplaced modifiers can make you look like a homo.

    Jesus Christ!! It is 1999!!! Can we stop assuming that the author of the post is a man or that the sexy drug dealer is male?!?!

  17. the innominate one   16 years ago

    jtuf - the "wheelbarrow", I believe

    joshua - it is 2009, not 1999

    Tim Cavanaugh, good idea, but you realize that they're not "tasting" the coke, they're seeing how quickly they're numbed by it as a measure of purity

  18. Britney   16 years ago

    nice post...
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