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...sharp opposition from experts who believe that marijuana is a considerably less dangerous drug than speed, LSD or heroin, and should be recognized as such. The bill contains only slim provisions for drug research and education and none at all for rehabilitation of addicts. Meanwhile the Administration launched "Operation Intercept" (see box, p. 70), described by officials as the largest search-and-seizure operation ever conducted by civil authorities in peacetime, in an attempt to stem the flow of drugs from Mexico...
...Operation Intercept got under way, U.S. border guards and customs officers fanned out across the porous 2,500-mile Mexico border that large quantities of illegal drugs cross on their way to the U.S. Officers and trained hounds searched automobile glove compartments and trunks, children's dolls and hollow surfboards, northbound traffic was slowed for miles on Mexico's routes 2 and 15. Other agents were at the ready in Coast Guard ships, fast cars, helicopters and high-speed pursuit planes to cut off smugglers at any available pass. Eventually the U.S. hopes to encourage Mexican agents...
Operation Intercept will use pursuit planes, torpedo boats, hugely increased forces of border officials, and devices that can detect fields of marijuana and opium poppies from...
Operation Intercept also has obtained the cooperation of the State Department to intensify its efforts in "persuading Mexico to place a program of eradication and control of marijuana and other dangerous drugs among the highest of national priorities." One effort to "persuade" is a threat to make Tiajuana off-limits to U. S. military personnel...
...official briefing, spokesmen for Operation Intercept dismissed reporters' speculations that stopping marijuana traffic might lead many young people to take stronger drugs. LSD, methedrine, and other hard drugs can be manufactured as easily in a home lab in San Francisco as they can in Mexico City...