Should Canada adopt a narcotics-amnesty law?

MHz

MHz

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Again you are missing the point. The 'mule' should turn his handlers and get a reward for it. No doubt 1/2 the Lawyers and Judges would be using the dealers product themselves so what kind of 'justice' is there. The rich get away with murder (actual murders) while some patsies make the headlines and the billions funneled into the 'war on drugs' a huge success when the reality is the tax-payers are being robbed blind and the real criminals are getting money from both sides.
Nothing changes, news about how f*cked around the taxpayers are doesn't even make them angry so they are already dead men who are still walking.
 
White_Unifier

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MHz said:
Again you are missing the point. The 'mule' should turn his handlers and get a reward for it. No doubt 1/2 the Lawyers and Judges would be using the dealers product themselves so what kind of 'justice' is there. The rich get away with murder (actual murders) while some patsies make the headlines and the billions funneled into the 'war on drugs' a huge success when the reality is the tax-payers are being robbed blind and the real criminals are getting money from both sides.
Nothing changes, news about how f*cked around the taxpayers are doesn't even make them angry so they are already dead men who are still walking.
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Not so easy. Let's say I'm a mule (trafficked or willing, take your pick). If I accuse you of having trafficked me to mule for your or of just being my supplier, the police would still need to prove that I'm telling the truth. I suppose my turning you in would at least now put you on the police radar for investigation which would already be a start. but in the mean time, if Im not trafficked, laws are needed to punish me as an example to others who want to mule willingly.

obviously if I'm trafficked and was forced to mule, that's another matter.
 
Mowich

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bill barilko said:
1-learn the difference between Columbia-the river and Colombia the country.

2-every smuggling scumbag in jail has a story like this.

I guess I'm the only poster here who has actually exited Colombia by air/been checked under their strenuous protocol believe me there is NFW you can smuggle anything as an air passenger.

I was X-rayed three (3) times and my bags were scanned, sniffed by a drug dog, then opened in front of me and everything searched manually probably because I had a bunch of big game fishing tackle that looked odd under Xray not every bag underwent that.

Pregnant women are asked permission to have their stomachs Xrayed and under Colombian law they can legally refuse however they can then be denied permission to board then if the authorities suspect someone they can be taken into custody to be examined by a physician.
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After having watched several episodes of Border Security Colombia, I can well believe that what you went through is standard practice.
 
White_Unifier

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Colombian airport screeners are probably among the best trained in the world.

I watched another documentary on the subject yesterday. Very interesting.

While Colombian judges are well aware that many drug mules are trafficked, many willing drug mules know this too and so if caught, they'll make up a story of having been trafficked.

In yesterday's documentary, two British girls tried just that but their stories were so full of holes they finally had to confess.

As far as I'm concerned, a willing drug mule who lies about being trafficked should get an additional sentence since they make it harder then to believe trafficking victims who tell the truth.

At least the one from two nights ago had a consistent and believable enough story for the judge to consider it and allow a pea bargain even if she couldn't prove it.
 
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