A Big Drug Party - Cheap cocaine on the way, thanks to a new Colombian law. By Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

Sweet. Just in time for Burning Man.

A Big Drug Party - Cheap cocaine on the way, thanks to a new Colombian law. By Daniel Kurtz-Phelan: "A Big Drug Party
Cheap cocaine on the way, thanks to a new Colombian law.
By Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
Posted Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005, at 4:24 AM PT

Uribe's plan will let the paramilitaries off easy
In May, Colombian soldiers raided a cave near the Pacific coast and found 15 tons of cocaine ready to be loaded onto a squadron of speedboats for transport north. It was the biggest take ever in Colombia, worth $400 million on the American street, and the latest in a slew of busts this spring and summer. In the past several months, Columbian authorities have stumbled on multi-ton stashes and intercepted drug-loaded speedboats on a weekly basis. Military officials report that they are on pace to seize 60 percent more cocaine than they did last year.

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