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If it is just a little more on the basis of the first batch of goods, it is not a big problem, after all, there are still a few tons of cocaine and marijuana in Harris's warehouse, but Liu Wei wants five tons of cocaine and ten tons of marijuana at a time, and Harris can't take it out. The stakes of drug trafficking are very high, even if Harris doesn't have to worry about the state police and the Drug Enforcement Administration, because the Mexican drug lords are deliberately stirring up the situation, and the market is constantly fluctuating, so there is no big hoarding.

Scouring every corner of the warehouse, Harris scraped together only two tons of cocaine and more than three tons of marijuana.

Liu Wei had already issued a warning to him not to manipulate the quality of the goods, so he could not dilute two tons of cocaine with a purity of 25 percent into five tons of cocaine with a purity of 10 percent. Marijuana is even more difficult to handle, although adding ordinary tobacco leaves can increase the quantity, but the labor cost is much more expensive than buying marijuana.

There is no other way but to continue to stock.

The day after Liu Wei placed the order, Harris asked Vicky to go to Colombia to buy cocaine and marijuana from the drug lords there. The next day, Harris left for Mexico to talk to a few drug lords about business. Due to the "drug trafficking", Colombia's supply of goods is not stable, and new import channels must be opened.

Back in the nineties of the last century, Mexico became the second largest drug producer in Latin America after Colombia.

Unlike Colombia, Mexico is a large country in Latin America, not only with a large population, but also a much larger land area than Colombia, and is also a neighbor of the United States and a member of the "North American Free Trade Area", so it is impossible for the United States to use Colombia to deal with Mexican drug lords.

The United States has been actively supporting the Mexican authorities' anti-drug campaign.

To this end, the United States not only provided intelligence support to Mexico's anti-narcotics department, but also provided a lot of free assistance, such as helping Mexico set up an anti-narcotics special police force.

Unfortunately, the United States has not received much in return for these efforts.

Due to the severe impact of [***], Mexico's anti-drug effectiveness is not obvious. Although several operations are launched every year to focus on cracking down on drug lords and drug trafficking networks, the thunder is often loud and the rain is small, and the few drug lords caught in the net do not have much of a real future, and they have not been able to curb the rampant drug lord forces at all.

According to statistics published by the US authorities, in the last year alone, up to two thousand tons of drugs flowed into the United States from Mexico!

Of these, less than one-tenth were seized by the U.S. Customs and Drug Enforcement Administration, and the rest went to the market, accounting for 30 percent of the annual consumption of the United States.

In terms of the degree of harm, 1,800 tons of drugs is no more than the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Tower.

Although there are no exact statistics, no less than 100,000 Americans die from drug overdoses or contract terminal illnesses such as AIDS each year, and most of them are young people between the ages of 18 and 28. The social problems caused by drug use have seriously threatened the domestic order of the United States, such as the perpetrator of the Fort Hood shooting, who killed 17 of his companions with two pistols after smoking marijuana.

Such a problem has also had a serious impact on the combat effectiveness of the US military.

The war in Afghanistan lasted for more than 10 years, and 500,000 US officers and soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan, ranging from two years to eight years. According to a Pentagon investigative report, one in ten of these servicemen became addicted to drugs in Afghanistan. It's just that instead of cocaine and marijuana, they smoke heroin and opium.

This scene is very similar to the Vietnam War in the 60s and 70s of the last century.

In that war, at least one-third of the US officers and soldiers were addicted to drugs to varying degrees!

As a result of these factors, the state of California had planned to set up a fence zone in the border area to prevent Mexicans from entering and leaving freely.

Unfortunately, this bill violates the U.S. Constitution and the provisions of the North American Free Trade Area.

After more than 10 years of efforts, drug lords and drug trafficking networks in northern Mexico have been effectively curbed, but the US authorities are still helpless against the drug lords entrenched in southern Mexico.

The roots are here.

Cannabis is a thermophilic plant, and the accumulated temperature of the growth cycle needs to be at least 2,400 degrees Celsius, and it can only grow in places with relatively humid soil. These conditions are not available in the northern part of Mexico, so most of the cannabis plantations in Mexico are located in the southern region, and they are mainly located along rivers and lakes with abundant water.

Concordia is located on the edge of the Angostura reservoir, an area with an average annual precipitation of 1,200 mm.

If the marijuana plantations in southern Mexico cannot be swept away, drugs will continue to flow north, so the drug lords in northern Mexico, who are mainly drug traffickers, will not stop fighting.

With the huge income from drug trafficking, Mexican drug lords have opened up more transportation routes.

If you can't go by land, you can go by sea and enter from the air.

Back at the end of the last century, Mexican drug lords bought small planes to transport hundreds of kilograms, or even tons, of drugs from low airlifts at a time, such as the United States. Because these small planes are very cheap, the most expensive is only a few hundred thousand dollars, and the cheapest is only tens of thousands of dollars, so after the US Air Guard stepped up border patrols, some drug lords even hired retired soldiers, especially airborne troops, to parachute over the United States with drugs.

At the beginning of this century, some drug lords also purchased very advanced business planes to transport drugs.

On the sea, there are many motorboats that have been specially modified and have a maximum speed of more than 45 knots, and the patrol ships of the US Coast Guard cannot keep up with them.

In recent years, Mexican drug lords have even gone the other way and started building mini-submarines and semi-submersible transports.

Three years ago, Mexico's political axe army seized a small submarine under construction at a fishing boat repair plant in Riolagatos, Yucatan Peninsula.

Although this submarine is very rudimentary, it can only dive 20 meters below the surface, the diving distance is less than 50 nautical miles, and the hull welded with steel pipes can only carry a maximum of two people and four tons of cargo, but the emergence of this new means of transport has greatly improved the efficiency of drug transportation.

What's more, the U.S. Coast Guard and Air Guard have a hard time spotting such small submarines.

In fact, the root cause is not in the drug lords, but in the United States.

As long as the United States remains the world's largest consumer of drugs, no matter how tight the U.S. border control measures, there will certainly be people who will take risks under the lure of huge profits.

Among them, Americans account for the majority.

Eighty percent of the drug dealers caught by the US police were Americans, and almost all of the felons who trafficked more than 10 pounds of drugs were Americans.

Two years ago, the F.B.I. cracked a drug trafficking case involving an American and a bioscientist.

The American, Isaac, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founded a biopharmaceutical company that went out of business because of poor management. After losing his job, Isaac became depressed and addicted to drugs. It was at this time that he came up with the idea of genetically modifying cannabis to adapt it to a harsher climate so that it could be cultivated on a large scale in other regions.

It's a pity that this guy doesn't have any talent for crime, and he buys a batch of experimental equipment with great fanfare. When he was found by the FBI, he had completed most of his experiments and had purchased 1,000 acres of land in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, where he planned to grow improved marijuana that could grow in the alpine region.

To make matters worse, Isaac's North Carolina, where Isaac is based, is one of the most heavily banned states in the United States.

Although only five marijuana cigarettes and a bag of marijuana seeds were found, he was sentenced to 75 years in prison by a state court, plus 15 years in prison for violating federal law, and he had to stay in prison for the rest of his life.

Of course, if Harris wants to get drugs, he must not count on those drug dealers in the country, because he is a drug dealer himself.

The trip to Mexico was not in vain, but it was a bit costly.

Under the influence of the "drug trafficking gate," the import of drugs from South America into the United States has greatly decreased, and there is an imbalance between supply and demand, and Mexican drug lords have seized the opportunity to raise prices in a big way, and the price of pure cocaine, which used to be $400 an ounce, or $14,000 a kilogram, has now risen to $600 an ounce.

Harris was helpless about this.

For him, there is still something to earn, just a little less.

In the United States, cocaine with a purity of 25 percent can still be sold for $800 an ounce, and even after excluding the costs of transportation and dilution processing, the net profit is about 600 percent. If it is wholesaled to Liu Wei, it is two hundred dollars an ounce, and the net profit is almost 80 percent.

Because Liu Wei has made it clear that if he can't receive the goods within a week, he will look for a new home, and he will definitely go directly to the Mexican drug lord, so Harris has no choice but to buy a ton of cocaine and eight tons of marijuana at a high price, and then arrange for someone to send the goods back to the United States.

It's been three days since I've done that.

To be on the safe side, Harris did not travel with the cargo and returned to Los Angeles first.

As long as the goods arrive in time, the dilution, packaging and other processes can be completed within two days, and the delivery can be just within the time limit proposed by Liu Wei.

For Vicky, who is heading to Colombia, Harris doesn't have much hope.

It's not that the Colombian drug lords don't have the goods in their hands, and it's not that the ** vicky is not competent enough, but the wind is too tight, and it is difficult to get the goods out, let alone back to the United States.

Either way, Harris got what he needed.

Back in Los Angeles, he first inquired about the cocaine dilution and dispensing plant, and the equipment was working properly and the raw materials for dilution were ready.

After all this, he remembered ** Vicky, but he couldn't get in touch.

This is normal, the nests of Colombian drug lords are deep in the dense forest, communication is very difficult, and even satellite phones often do not work properly due to too dense vegetation.

At this time, ** Vicky is indeed in the drug lord's lair and is bargaining with Pedro, the Colombian "drug king".

"Pedro" must be a pseudonym, as it is the name of a small town in Colombia and the birthplace of the "Drug King". It's just that few people know what his name is, because those who know his real name have either died long ago or died.

There's only one thing that can't be denied, this guy controls the largest marijuana plantation in Colombia.

(To be continued)