Authorities have reportedly seized a record one million pounds of cocaine during fiscal year 2025, the news coming as President Donald Trump fights drug trafficking cartels.
“A Florida-based multi-agency task force has seized a record one million pounds of cocaine during fiscal year 2025 — a haul officials say represents 378 million lethal doses, enough to kill every American,” Fox News reported Monday.
The outlet continued:
The seizure was announced by Joint Inter-Agency Task Force – South (JIATF-S), led by U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). The unit, which includes the U.S. Coast Guard, works with partner nations to disrupt the flow of illicit drugs through the “transit zone” between South America, Central America and the Caribbean and to weaken transnational criminal organizations.
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JIATF-S confirmed to Fox News Digital that the effort has denied cartels and narco-terrorists $11.34 billion in revenue and removed 377.9 million lethal doses from the streets.
In May, the U.S. Coast Guard offloaded 28,500 pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades, and photos show the massive haul: more
It makes one wonder how much got in.
Since Trump got Coca-cola to go back to real sugar, I’m wondering…
“Enough to Kill Every American”
Commie Xi: “That’s the plan”.
I’ve always wondered how do they dispose of that poison?
Think we’re not in WWIII already? It’s just a different kind of war.
They’re just dropping Drug Bombs on us… for now.
I’ve always wondered how do they dispose of that poison?
Easy… They give it to the Biden family and it’s gone in less than a week.
Does that include the Venezuelan narco boats that got sent to Davey Jones’ locker instead of the evidence locker? And to answer Geni’s question, drugs typically get held until the case is “disposed” one way or another, then incinerated. The agency I worked for in the early 2000’s, we took a van full at a time to a steel mill about 100 miles away. I understand now it has to be a “certified” medical waste incinerator.
Or maybe have one hell of a party!
Never understood the hype about coke. It’s like dusting the house with your nose. My thing was pot, and when they legalized it, it wasn’t fun anymore so I quit it, smoking cigarettes and drinking for good. Never looked back. Besides, you can’t trust anything that’s not homegrown or homemade anyway. So much of it is cut with poison these days. The chicoms want everyone dead.
Send this to the middle east, to africa, to china, to india. C’mon folks, we got an asset, let’s use it. Good golly our ‘leaders’ are stoopid!
You’d think some curious and enterprising biochemist could come up with a way to neutralize the chemicals in cocaine, making them inert. Does anyone else wonder how tons of cocaine being dumped into ocean waters affect them and its inhabitants? We, apparently, already have problems with “treated” water, loaded with pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs, being purged into our waters.
And what about bales of drugs washing up on shorelines and its potential danger to anyone coming into contact with them?
Did i tell you about the time in my life when i shared a house with a coke dealer ?
Thanks , RickeyG !!
Did you know?
One Million pounds of Cannabis would not kill one single person, unless it fell on them.
PS: RIP Jane Goodall
~King Kong
Drug cartels are the epitome of demand and supply organizations. We don’t have a drug problem because of a supply problem; we have a drug problem because of a demand problem. If we could reduce demand, we would automatically reduce the supply.
Every society has had drug use – there is a certain percentage of the population who needs mind/mood altering substances in order to cope and will do almost anything to obtain these substances. But cocaine is suppposedly cool; if we can make it less cool, the supply should decrease. From an economics standpoint, I don’t blame the dealers as much as I blame the consumers – interdicting cocaine will not stop the smuggling or dealing, but will make the product more expensive resulting in higher profits for the cartels because demand is unaffected.
I guess we learned nothing from prohibition; in fact, we probably learned nothing during prohibition. Bootleggers and moonshiners were thrilled when prohibition was enacted, and upset when prohibition was repealed. Sure, it may have been fun watching Eliot Ness bust up barrels of beer, but basically all they were doing is driving up the cost of alcohol while increasing the profitability of organized crime and encouraging corruption.
Unfortunately, I don’t know how to decrease demand in today’s societal climate. We have moved a long way from encouraging morality, and we seem to actually be condoning immorality. Illicit drug use is part of this trend.
“I guess we learned nothing from prohibition; in fact, we probably learned nothing during prohibition.”
Keep going. You might arrive at something other than the penultimate conclusion.
The Human race: not ready for prime time.
GM – “I guess we learned nothing from prohibition; in fact, we probably learned nothing during prohibition.”
Well the government sure did! They wanted a piece of the action, so they taxed the hell out of it!
Harry, the government now just represents the worst of our instincts. I want my sons and my grand kids (and their kids) to live by the ideals of our founding fathers.
(This is directed at others looking in here, of which it seems there are quite a few lately.)
GM – When my two went to college they knew their history (and other subjects) better than the others who came from public schools. I don’t… I know they didn’t know how well they were educated (at the time) until then which is also a testimonial to my wife as a stay-at-home mom who worked with them every day.
18 grams per capita. Pace yourself – OK?
…Bill Gates hardest hit.