Give or take a few dollars, pot grown in Mexico and sold in Texas still goes for about the same price as 25 years ago. Marijuana can be bought for as little as $30 a pound in remote stretches of Mexico and can be sold for $500 in Houston, or for at least twice that amount when packaged in smaller user quantities

Give or take a few dollars, authorities say, pot grown in Mexico and sold in Houston and other Texas cities still goes for about the same price as 25 years ago: $60 to $80 for an ounce.

In other words, smoke up, heretical terrorist! You're not only fueling al Qaeda's mass murder by purchasing weed cultivated by illegal Mexicans in the rural public lands of the world, but you're also turning your back on God in the process.

Border Patrol agents arrested a convicted sex offender and seized 1,500 pounds of marijuana Tuesday in separate incidents.Agents at the Naco station arrested a 33-year-old Mexican man on Tuesday. During processing, they discovered he had been convicted of having sex with a minor and rape by force or fear in 2003.

With machetes draped from the belts of their camouflage pants, deputies from the Jackson County Sheriff's Department trudged up the side of a hill deep in the Applegate Valley to remove a marijuana plantation linked to a Mexican drug ring. Up to 10,000 five to six foot tall plants were cut down and are believed to be linked to a mexican drug ring.

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