Cocaine Brain?

One little story about a toxic substance that causes serious deterioration and can do chronic damage to the brain.

Cognitive Decline Tied To Chronic Use Of Illicit Drug

Always paranoid they would bust his chop shop no matter how well he could hide.

 Rich man, poor man, methamphetamine

Jenni Rivera's Connections

The following Madcow article is significant and would be huge if media was doing it's job:
EXCLUSIVE: Drug Traffickers Own Jenni Rivera Death Plane
Posted on December 12, 2012 by Daniel Hopsicker

WHO REALLY OWNED THE PLANE WHOSE CRASH KILLED JENNIE RIVERA?

50-year old Christian Eduardo Esquino-Nunez is the owner—at least, on paper—of Starwood Management LLC, the Las Vegas aviation charter company which is the registered owner of the crashed Lear jet.  
It is, at best, a legal fiction.
Virtually nothing about him should be taken at face value.  And with good reason: he lives in a web of international intrigue.

One example: Eduardo Esquino-Nunez was part of a conspiracy last year to smuggle Moammar Khadafy’s son, Saadi Gaddafi, into Mexico.
He was contacted, he said, by a representative of a Canadian developer who asked for a Mexican-registered aircraft charter to North Africa.

ONE MONTH LATER:

Explosive report claims that singer Jenni Rivera was involved with DRUG CARTELS before she died in plane crash  10 January 2013 By DAILY MAIL REPORTER  

Singer and reality star Jenni Rivera had ties to one of Mexico's most notorious drug cartels before she was killed last month in a plane crash, a shocking report has claimed.
A witness reportedly came forward with claims that the Mexican-American performer, known as 'La Diva de la Banda,' was connected to the Beltran-Leyva cartel, which is regarded as one of the country's most feared criminal syndicates.

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The horror of Meth

Before-and-after pictures reveal shocking transformation in faces of users hooked on deadly drug. The photos, that show a shocking Dorian Gray-like deterioration, were compiled from mug shots of drug users that were arrested repeatedly over the years.

How Meth Effects the Brain and the Body

A sad case of Meth Mouth.  When you have money or good credit, you can repair some of the damages.  Lindsay Lohan Skipped Probation to Get Her Filthy Teeth Fixed.   WTF is going on here, early stage meth mouth?  Yet another celebrity victim, Lisa Robin Kelly, of That 70s Show.  Castmates: Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Kurtwood Smith, Debra Jo Rupp, Danny Masterson, Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Wilmer Valderrama to name a few.

Britney Spears is a Breaking Bad fan?  Did she or didn't she?

The Jael Strauss story blows away all those “Faces of Meth” ads.  Some of our local dopes and meth heads have the money to keep up appearances yet the slow decay will show up over time.  (bad, bad boys, too - William Paxson - William Konrad - Jerry Boeff - Paul Woellert).  Not everyone is as lucky with the looks department and shades can only cover up so much.  Drugs are fairly available behind bars but for the lucky ones they can stay off while they do their time.  Other  bodies have been known to deteriorate more rapid as you can observe if unfortunate enough to watch them try and work.

The playing field of Santa Barbara is not equal in the world of Rich man, poor man, methamphetamine. That is a grim fact of life. It was recently stated in a local news report that the Mexican cartels have taken over the local street gangs.  What will that mean for other dealers and abusers?  It doesn't get much more bloody, outside of a war, than the escalation in Mexico.  On our local shores the War on Drugs has been kicked up a few notches with the recent murder of a federal law enforcement officer.  We don't see how it helps when the privileged use illegal slave labor from Mexico or the US to do their dirty work.

Meth users often end up in the justice system.  From Hollywood actors to lawyers, from race car drivers and minor league baseball players to children of pastors, from surfers to teachers … from any walk of life you care to name, methamphetamine has found its takers, its so-called tweekers.

The justice system's bad case scenario and they can roam, they just can't hide from the law forever when meth is only one of their many Illegalities.   Birds of a feather do flock together.  Will meth change who you are?
   It sure did a number on Aaron Carter.

Federal Agent Killed When Drug Smuggler Rams Coast Guard Boat

Dec 2, 2012 A federal law enforcement officer was killed when a dope smuggler’s small craft rammed a Coast Guard boat in a midnight intercept of a marijuana load off the California coast, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
Four suspects are in custody and a manhunt is under way for at least two others who may have escaped to a coastal island.
According to sources, the incident took place early this morning, at approximately 1 a.m., when the Coast Guard intercepted two boats — a pleasure craft and a panga boat, which is a small, fast launch — near San Clemente Island, in Santa Barbara County.

Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III, 34, of Redondo Beach was second in command of the Halibut, an 87-foot patrol cutter based in Marina del Rey.  Coast Guard News
In Memoriam – Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III

Redondo Beach:  Horne later moved to Redondo Beach, where he lived with his wife, Rachel. Neighbors told multiple television outlets Sunday that Rachel Horne is pregnant with the couple's second child.

A smuggler's vessel rammed a small U.S. Coast Guard boat off the Southern California coast, killing one Coast Guard member and injuring another

Noozhawk: Coast Guard Officer Killed When Boat Rammed
Santa Barbara Independent:  Panga Rams Coast Guard Boat, Kills Chief Officer
Ventura County Star:  Coast Guard member dies after boat collides with panga

Cops Say Legalize Drugs

Raging Panga!  

Edhat:  Panga rams Coast Guard boat, kills Chief Officer.
Edhat:  A Blackhawk helicopter full of armed Sheriffs.
Edhat:  I have an elderly friend (Vietnam Combat Vet) that needs a referral for medical marijuana.

Coast Guard Member Dies In Crash With Smuggler's Boat Off Calif. Coast (VIDEO)
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday that Horne and fellow crewmembers of the Halibut "were engaged in an at-sea interdiction when they came under threat by a small vessel that rammed their small boat."

Risky Business

12/5/12 UPDATE SPECIAL REPORT: Details Revealed in Coast Guard Officer’s Death

Also How, When, and Why Pangas are Pushing into Santa Barbara Waters

Insane Comments on Drug Legalization

Meth Now Being Disguised as Liquor

Every 42 seconds in U.S. there's a marijuana arrest

Local school bus driver arrested on charge of possession of meth for sale

Afghan drug trafficking brings US $50 billion a year

80 per cent of the world’s drugs are produced in Afghanistan. 

Americans themselves admit that drugs are often transported out of Afghanistan on American planes. Drug trafficking in Afghanistan brings them about 50 billion dollars a year – which fully covers the expenses tied to keeping their troops there.

Drugs, Money Laundering and the Banking System

Not crazy enough for you?  

Hillary Clinton: Legalization not the answer to the drug war
"This is an ongoing debate," she said. "We are formulating our own response to the votes of two of our states as you know — what that means for the federal system, the federal laws and law enforcement."

Cops Say Legalize Drugs

The CIA, Drug Trafficking and American Politics: The Political Economy of War

US pullout from Afghanistan to reduce drug trafficking to Russia

CRY FOR HELP

One of FBI's most wanted arrested in Mexico

Mexico arrests Jimmy Kimmel look-alike and suspected murderer on most wanted list.

The Killer of His Daughter's Mother.  A cunning American boy becomes a Mexican Cartel soldier and East L.A. executioner.

How Jose Saenz, one of FBI's Ten Most Wanted, was caught after 14 years

This Official Record was collected from a Law Enforcement agency on 11/18/2011.

Hit Man Trained by Mexican Cartels

Sigreda Fernandez

Wikipedia   +  FBI   +    CAPTURED    +   ten most wanted    +

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Nov 27, 2012 SLO:  Another panga boat found in same area as last three

Treasury Designates Ibarra Cardona Drug Trafficking Organization

Action Targets Major Methamphetamine Precursor Import Network

Mexico's Drug War Is Changing Childhood  

Police narrowly cheat death after 'mobile meth lab minivan' explosion is caught on camera

Sheriff’s Department Receives $130,000 Grant for DUI Enforcement Campaign

UCSB Burglars Busted

VIDEO

She defied Mexico's powerful drug gangs, who twice tried to gun her down

Maria Santos Gorrostieta - Astonishing HERO of Mexico's Undeclared War

They got her in the end.

MEXICO, D.F. -- The former mayor of Tiquicheo, Michoacan, Maria Santos Gorrostieta Salazar, 36 years old, was found dead Thursday morning in a vacant property in the Cuitzeo municipality (county).
Previously, Gorrostieta had suffered two attacks. one on October 15, 2009, when she was ambushed along


with her husband, Jose Sanchez, who died in the attack. She was wounded in the incident.
The other attack took place in January, 2010, when, after taking part in a public event in Altamirano City, Guerrero, she was attacked and wounded by individuals who were carrying assault rifles.

Enemy of Mexico’s drug cartels

Obit of the Day                  

The Third Strike of a Presidenta

Borderland Beat

New Frontier of the Drugwar: Prescription Drugs