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In addition to mental illness, a recent international study found a link between “persistent cannabis use and neuropsychological decline.” In other words, marijuana causes damage to intelligence, memory and attention. [Is this why leftists are so stupid?- Editor]

More than 40,000 people have been killed in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drugs cartels in 2006. – BBC

Obama promised to borrow $200 million to spend on the drug war in central America while he ignores the porous border where drug smugglers openly carry bales of drugs through Arizona. This hidden camera video shows drug smugglers carrying camouflaged bales of marijuana on a trail 2 miles south of Interstate 8 in Arizona. Illegal aliens are smuggled on the same trail days later. The camera has been located in this exact same spot before capturing images of armed smugglers, rip off teams, and suspects in the attempted murder of a law enforcement officer.

As Obama and the left push their domestic redistribution agenda our national security is in peril on the third war front, our southern porous border.

One of the world’s top drug kingpins may soon be telling U.S. prosecutors everything he knows about Venezuelan officials who have abetted his cocaine smuggling operations.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has told the BBC the US should do more to reduce the demand for drugs that is fueling violence in Mexico.

The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state.

Stashing cash in spare tires, engine transmissions and truckloads of baby diapers, couriers for Mexican drug cartels are moving tens of billions of dollars in profits south across the border each year, a river of dirty money that has overwhelmed U.S. and Mexican customs agents.

At least 21 people have been killed in a gunfight between two of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels near the border with the US, officials have said.

In areas of the country worst-hit by the drugs conflict, which has left some 23,000 people dead since late 2006, political parties admit they have found it hard to find citizens willing to run for office.