Sunday, April 25, 2010

museum of drugs!!!


Mexico¡¯s Museum of Drugs opened its doors in 1985. It was a small room with a couple of display cases in it. Since then the situation had changed: Now museum is situated in Mexico¡¯s version of the Pentagon. A lot of spacious rooms, but its curators say they are running out of room for all the contraband they would like to showcase.
Samples of various drugs, including methamphetamine, cocaibe and marijuana in various forms are labeled in a glass case.

Arrows on a lighted 3D-map show the directions of drug trafficking from the south toward the United States.
A diorama shows how police and military road blocks can help catch drug smugglers. In the past three years, Mexican forces have confiscated 443 airplanes, 14,622 vehicles and 43,118 weapons, including bazookas and grenade launchers. They have seized $113,990,520 in cash, Claudio Montane said.
Zayaqui, a narcotics-detecting German Shepherd who died in 2008, is memorialized at the museum. He was responsible for the seizure of more than 8,000 pounds of marijuana and other drug findings.
A display at the museum shows how marijuana is smuggled inside a surf board.
 

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