Tommy Chong Quotes

Drug traffickers have more and more haystacks in which to hide their contraband needles.

I've spent a fair amount of time down at the border.I have watched as these packs of marijuana are on the backs of young men that are walking across the border. They're hauling an average of about 65 pounds, some of them every day they take another load.

I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?

Drug smugglers often use juveniles to carry their shipments into the U.S. because they know the juveniles will not be prosecuted if caught.

I believe I've always been so successful on the black market for a lot of different reasons.

What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen antiques. It's got the largest number of antique shops in the UK, so it's a great place to fence stolen goods. It's got tremendous communication: you've got the sea ports, you've got the channel tunnel, you've got Gatwick Airport 25 minutes away, and London's 50 minutes away by train. So all these escape routes... Which is what villains like.

The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and marijuana would be like oranges, and instead of making billions smuggling it, I’d be making pennies doing stoop labor in some California field, picking it.

I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

I remember, when I was writing 'Traffic,' talking to top federal drug-enforcement officials and having them say they read it and found it very good and believable, except the scene where the girl describes her resume.

And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.

It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

Larado and Neuvo Larado are not separated but are joined by a common border. 12 thousand trucks cross the border at Larado every day. People shop on both sides of the border. Families are on both sides. Putting up a fence will not work. Illegal aliens will tunnel under it and climb over it. I am going to go into the ladder business. You don’t turn your back on and separate yourself from your friends.

I drove across the bridge over the Potomac River and got out of the car. There were marijuana plants growing as far as the eye could see. And they wanted me to eliminate it.

Drugs come to America, not by invasion, but by invitation.

Why attempt to keep drugs out of the country, or prevent them from being sold? After all, police can't be everywhere at once. Since choices have to be made, it will be tempting to let the drug trade proceed unmolested, then just go after the cash.

Every new law enforcement measure in recent years has been met with increasingly sophisticated evasive techniques on the part of organized crime.

If they [terrorists] are going to send an atomic bomb into this country, they’re going to wrap it in marijuana and send it in with the millions of pounds of marijuana that comes across the border.

As long as there is a demand [for drugs], there will be a supply.

Obsessively chasing foreign smugglers and beefing up border enforcement will achieve little without much more focused and sustained attention to the demand for illicit goods that fuels the cross-border clandestine economy, most notably the United States’ addiction to cheap immigrant labor and mind-altering substances.

I feel like, Barry Seal, he's pure of heart.

No border controls anywhere in the world are able to prevent determined criminals from crossing borders.

Entering the country illegally is bad enough, but to then commit crimes against innocent Americans is completely unacceptable.