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Geopolitical Weekly Security Weekly January 26, 2012 Text Size -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor's Note: In this annual report on Mexico's drug cartels, we assess the most significant developments of 2011 and provide updated profiles of the country's powerful criminal cartels as well as a forecast for 2012. The report is a product of the coverage we maintain through our Mexico Security Memo, quarterly updates and other analyses we produce throughout the year. As we noted in last year's annual cartel report, Mexico in 2010 bore witness to some 15,273 deaths in connection with the drug trade. The death toll for 201…

Dutch police and local governments in the southern Netherlands will work with the European Space Agency to find illegal cannabis plots hidden in fields of corn and asparagus using satellite data. The space agency will perform a trial in 2012, using multispectral and infrared images taken from Earth’s orbit to identify hemp plants, according to Max Timp, a spokesman for the municipality of Venlo, which is leading the project. While growing hemp for marijuana is illegal in the Netherlands, authorities tolerate raising five cannabis plants for home use. Limburg, the country’s southern-most province, has set up a program called “green gold†to root out illegal ru…

Smugglers are using remote controlled planes to sneak drugs into Europe without fear of being caught. Police found a device carrying 2.2 kilos of cannabis resin after it crashed in the Mediterranean between Morocco and Spain. Officers suspect the customised, petrol-powered plane was controlled by a pilot in a boat following as it attempted the 19-mile trip to Tarifa on the southern coast Inside the structure they found two packets containing the drug, worth around 2000 euros (£1,700). Officers from Spain's Civil Guard force were stunned when they discovered the new system for drug smuggling, two miles north of the Moroccan coastline, last week. A police source said: 'T…

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/big-cannabis-stash-found-in-bunker-at-kidman-park/story-e6frea83-1226104262960 A COUPLE is facing up to life in jail after police found 60kg of dried cannabis in a backyard. Police found the haul - worth up to $400,000 - stashed in industrial-sized paint tins and hidden in an underground bunker in a Kidman Park backyard on Thursday afternoon. They also found two firearms and about 2kg of white powder which is yet to be identified. Police will allege the drugs and guns belong to the man, 45, and woman, 26. Detective Inspector Derryn Phillips, acting officer in charge of the Drug Investigation Branch, said police …

WHAT do you do with a haul of more than 33,000 cannabis plants worth in excess of $82 million? If there is a total fire ban you truck it to a nearby sugar mill and burn it. The $82 million stash - uncovered two weeks ago at a Mt Pelion property - was Queensland's biggest cannabis haul of 2011 and these pictures show it being disposed of at Farleigh mill. Police from a Brisbane drug squad, dressed in camouflage, and Farleigh mill workers can be seen getting the crop ready for the mill's furnace. The cannabis plants were trucked to the mill on Friday, October 7, the same afternoon police announced they had seized the plants over a three-day period. While the evide…

http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/11/marijuana_found_growing_outside_australian_court_h.php#more So which one of you was it?

Cortlan Bennett From: AAP November 30, 2011 2:19PM Source: PerthNow http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/get-tough-laws-benefit-crime/story...1226210475068 "TOUGH new cannabis and proposed prostitution laws are driving people towards harder drugs and organised crime, Western Australia's opposition says. Under former WA Labor government laws, possession of two outdoor plants or up to 30g of cannabis resulted in a $150 spot fine and no criminal charge. The current Liberal-National government tightened the laws in July, punishing possession of 10g or more of cannabis with up to two years' jail or a $2000 fine."