The $193,000,000,000 Evolution of the Narco Mule

[@cubearthx]

'Congratulations to drugs for winning the war on drugs'

[@nooper007]

who else?

[@cruisinguy6024]

This doesn’t get addressed enough; we have spent BILLIONS on “the war on drugs” and yet have accomplished absolutely nothing. The supply has never been threatened and instead we just fuel violence south of the border.

[@mycosys]

Imagine if we had invested all those resources in healthcare & harm reduction.

[@DaveSCameron]

Ikr @LEAP

[@notyrpapa]

@@mycosysor legalised them, controlled the distribution and taxed them. Preventing the deaths of those in law enforcement, cartels, in the crossfire, reducing the money going into US and South American gangs, and making the product safer, too.

[@UltraPatate]

a video without a bullshit sponsored ad in 2024 ? No way

[@waterlinestories]

🤣

[@garrysekelli6776]

Dea is the sponsor.

[@RJ.the.artist]

@@garrysekelli6776 I was thinking the CIA, but close enough.😂

[@cruisinguy6024]

Whatchu talkin’ about? This video was brought to you by the leaves of the coca tree.

[@timpost2981]

@@waterlinestoriesWe love you for it!

[@Mr.SharkTooth-zc8rm]

Crime (unlike War) is never given enough credit for spurring on human ingenuity...

[@waterlinestories]

🤣

[@mikeslime4933]

True indeed

[@bearrett50kal17]

"Necessity is the mother of invention" and humans *need* drugs

[@haydentravis3348]

What's criminal is that people decide what the law is for everybody else, but they don't ever have to follow it themselves. Be gay, do crimes.

[@SpankyK]

Better 🐭

[@ducttapetech9885]

I knew a guy that ran go fast boats in the Bahamas. Originally, they were crewed by two Bahamians and typically had three large outboard engines on them. The helicopters weren't allowed to shoot the crews, but the engines were fair game, That's how most boats were stopped because someone in the helicopter would spray the engines with a machine gun. To counteract that strategy, an extra crewman was added, usually a Haitian, whose job was to spread eagle himself over the engines at the first appearance of a helicopter, which kept the helicopter from stopping the boat.

[@waterlinestories]

Hey thanks for this, and the extra detail. Interesting that they learn what can and can’t be shot and then use it to their advantage. So you knew a guy did you 🤣

[@ducttapetech9885]

@@waterlinestories Those were heady days. I used to fly for an outfit in the Caribbean. My boss got shot down over the jungle by the Colombian Air Force, was presumed dead for about two weeks, but finally walked out of the wild and went right back to work.

[@ducttapetech9885]

@@waterlinestories Oh, and saw several gold plated AK-47s in South America...

[@waterlinestories]

@ducttapetech9885 🤣

[@Kindiann_]

U seem to know about too much detail, little sus. I’ll put you in my suspect list just in case.

[@luipaardprint]

So since the start of the war on drugs the international market for cocaine has grown by almost 200.000.000.000. They should just start taxing the market to try and recoup their losses.

[@manitoba-op4jx]

and build torpedos to sink the subs

[@horsetowater]

1:57 aka silver or lead Your documentaries are truly well done

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks

[@kylehill4437]

USCG veteran here....this brought back memories of our constant hunts of these semi submersibles. I personally never caught one (just lots of gofasts). You explained this very well thanks.

[@lost4468yt]

The fact you never caught one, and the amount they transport vs US consumption really goes to show how much of a failure the war on drugs has been. I can't imagine how many get through vs how many are caught. The fact they moved from single use to long term reusable also shows that getting caught by authorities isn't much of a concern to them.

[@alexhanna3921]

Ex Soviet submarine engineers are designing the narco subs. This is actually a fact. Not all, but definitely the more complex units can be traced to former Soviet engineers. Soviet technology has been sold or even complete surplus equipment has been involved with South American narco’s since the 70’s.

[@iwaswrongabouteveryhthing]

anti Russian propaganda, American government run most crime

[@wumi2419]

Won't be surprised. There wasn't a lot of work in ex-USSR in 90s, but there was a lot of crime, including drugs. Insane times, insane amount of money was made.

[@lost4468yt]

Things got so bad in the 90s that they even found people selling enriched uranium. If you wanted something like a military helicopter it was pretty easy to just fly out there and buy one. I'm sure you would have had competition to build you a sub.

[@mbeard89]

I got to stand on one in 2008 while stationed in Key West at the small boat station. I was shocked to learn how far that it had travelled before getting intercepted.

[@fridayjuniorjuniorfrizzle9272]

How far?

[@josephd.5524]

Legalize it, regulate it, tax the shit out of it, educate people about it. prohibition doesn't work.

[@benjaminallen3595]

yep! bring it home and regulate it! bye bye fentanyl, bye bye cartels!

[@manitoba-op4jx]

@@benjaminallen3595 also just making it uncool. when i was in highschool i got the impression it was something that only addicts and junkies did, and noone i know would even touch the stuff. i think they should employ drone-launched torpedoes.

[@foughtthelol]

Don't they use extreme prejudice to deal with narcotic trafickers in various east asian countries and it is working?

[@sathivv950]

@@foughtthelol They are very distant for cocaine but have their own problems combating methamphetamine and opiates. Even the Taliban (before they were for it) couldn't stop the opium trade in Afghanistan.

[@jeong-ilkajokaya3849]

Minus the taxes part. If you make it expensive enough, they will get it illegally. Which will bring you back to square one.

[@Mr.Blonde92]

The video of that agent jumping on the sub pounding on the hatch is so great "stop the subamarine, NOW!!" 😅

[@cruisinguy6024]

That was actually the US Coast Guard - they have special interdiction teams and even operate “spy planes” and drones to find smugglers.

[@johnnunn8688]

Was it a submarine or a semi-submersible?

[@Mr.Blonde92]

@@johnnunn8688 good question, i think the difference between a submersible and submarine is a submarine comes from the shore or a dock and a submersible has to be towed to where its going like the oceangate titan

[@mboyer68]

Inside they wish they could say, dive dive dive! But they can't.

[@peterj5106]

@Mr.Blonde92. The capabilities are in the name. A submarine is capable of operating under the surface, whereas a semi sub is just a very low profile vessel which isn't capable of diving & has to operate on the surface.

[@tardiscommand1812]

The Cartels should just start selling narco subs. Like no drugs, but just the submarine. They just seem pretty cool to be in.

[@josephd.5524]

Right up until you see the toilet facilities, which may only be a bucket. in rough seas.

[@cruisinguy6024]

See, that’s the thing…..I’m surprised they haven’t advanced to using military subs. There’s at least one known attempt to buy a Russian sob but as far as we know they’ve never actually utilized a true military sub to transport their product. I think there’s a reasonable likelihood they HAVE utilized military diesel/electric subs and we just don’t know about it because they haven’t been caught doing so. Then again, the jungle-made fiberglass semi-submersible seems to be working well for them as a disposable form of transport.

[@volvo09]

You'd have to fill it with multiple tons of ballast. Without all that weight it would float like a normal boat.

[@Tom-Talbot]

Not fun. I didn't get you tube for weeks.

[@echomande4395]

The US military is looking into building and using narcosub type boats, fitted as unmanned surface vehicles, to resupply units across the pacific. Apparently they are looking at a payload of 6 tons or so.

[@DRBarber88]

This was a really cool one! Thanks for all the great content yall put out!

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks 😀👍🏻

[@Ionee-q4f]

narco subs are kinda fire tho, the coast guard should clean them and put em up for auction or something lol, look way too cool to just throw away

[@waterlinestories]

Sell them to film studios

[@giggiddy]

"Fire?" Did you say they are "fire?" Is that ghetto??

[@giggiddy]

Fire? Speak English bud

[@willmachado1]

​@@waterlinestoriesna, back to the narcos

[@johnluck2279]

I agree. I’d love to cruise around in a good one

[@242sten]

Thank you Columbia!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

[@graemeguthrie8758]

last night i litterally fell asleep watching your 3 hour shipwreck compilation! i have been binge watching every video! good work!

[@waterlinestories]

🤣 thanks.

[@unclecodyd_babyy4741]

Be careful, I did it and then I ran out and I had waterline withdrawals 😂

[@TheGreyGhost_of43rd]

Submarines and 100% pure Colombian cocaine is peak life...

[@waterlinestories]

🤣

[@4uhDamagecase]

where can i submit my resumé?

[@AimlessFishbone]

Thats what I thought. Oh what I would give for a transatlantic voyage in a submarine doing nose beers the entire way lmao

[@giggiddy]

Nose beers?

[@somethinglikethat2176]

​@@giggiddy lines of coke

[@JA-pb7oz]

It's mind blowing how much effort goes into the transportation of this " product" . The CIA must laugh out loud as they fly theirs in directly overhead.

[@deepbludude4697]

Back in the early 90s I was a diver on a vessel called the Accoustic Pioneer they set up and developed the TTPs to find these vessels at that time they were crude as hell.

[@volvo09]

I wonder how many have been lost at see due to a failure of some sort.

[@justingoretoy1628]

This may be borderline the most waterline story I've ever heard online. You know, since semi submersibles are both above and below the water line.

[@waterlinestories]

🤣

[@johnboycurb9119]

Wow, we have a Genuis in our midst....Of course they're Above and Below The Water Line........The Key word being "Semi"

[@danesternecker6567]

If the goal is to increase the profitability & destructiveness of drugs, prohibition & interdiction is an excellent means to achieve it. The reality of drug prohibition is that it INCREASES dangers to the public (particularly gun violence), fuels both the profits of organized crime & the corruption of government, all while being just as [in]effective as alcohol prohibition was in the 1920s.

[@benjaminallen3595]

not to mention dirty drugs! no prohibition, no fentanyl

[@DARTHNECRION]

How do we get people to stop using the stuff?

[@danesternecker6567]

People are capable of making their own decisions. It’s not your job to make their decisions for them.

[@DARTHNECRION]

@@danesternecker6567 If it harms society as a whole, though, shouldn’t we all have a say in it?

[@danesternecker6567]

⁠You apparently didn’t read my initial comment, if you’re concerned about harm to society.

[@mboyer68]

Love your videos, and your accent!!! My neighbors are South African so I've heard it a bunch. Keep up the great videos!!

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks, I’ll do my best. Say Howsit to your neighbours. 🇿🇦

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks, I’ll do my best. Say Howsit to your neighbours. 🇿🇦

[@TheUndiesrules]

These guys really seem to know how to get around law enforcement! Thank you, great video.

[@waterlinestories]

👍🏻

[@julitosnijders3623]

I could listen to you all day long Sir.

[@waterlinestories]

👍🏻

[@Phil-D83]

During prohibition, the smugglers somehow got a surplus ww1 German boat, and used same to bring in alcohol from Cuba to Florida.

[@BlackPill-pu4vi]

I'm surprised the narco builders never thought of acquiring a 20,000 gallon propane storage tank. They can be had on the used market and are perfect in every way for making a narco submarine out of. Unlike the current low profile semi submersibles, a large propane storage tank is easily strong enough to submerge to 100' depth. It has plenty of room for all the stuff needed to travel submerged and occasionally come up to recharge batteries and change out the stale air. It can use commercially available stuff used by fishermen and pleasure boats i.e. radios, fish finders to act as ersatz sonar, depth finders, and navigation radars when on the surface. The science of building a fully functioning submarine has been well known for a century now. A narco sub doesn't have to perform any military function so, that will make it easier to concentrate on functions relevant to the crew and its ability to deliver the drugs.

[@Phil-D83]

@BlackPill-pu4vi the older ones were sealed up boats. The newer gen are large autonomous submarines that can cross the atlantic. Carry drugs to africa, and then it goes up to Europe.

[@HardLineElektron]

Well chosen topic, very interesting! Thank you 👋

[@waterlinestories]

👍🏻

[@MontanaMedic13]

I feel like Oceangate could have been a good option to build subs for the drug cartels. The Ocenagate CFSS (Carbon Fiber Smuggling Sub).

[@somethinglikethat2176]

"We looked into it but immediately ended our business relationship after realising that they were dangerous lunatics" said Juan of the Cali Cartel.

[@williamp6800]

Why switch to an inferior product?

[@johnsherby9130]

@@somethinglikethat2176”but wouldn’t possible de-lamination of composite layers cause catastrophic failure?” - Alejandro, head of narco skunk works

[@JillyMsings]

Love your channel ❤️ So well done 🎉 Thank you 😊

[@lolza-qh2xw]

Imagine if the engineers making these went to college or had an actual career, these are incredible creations.

[@waterlinestories]

Yeah interesting right. Although I can imagine some had training and education. Then put that education to use in a billion dollar industry. 😂

[@waterlinestories]

Yeah interesting right. Although I can imagine some had training and education. Then put that education to use in a billion dollar industry. 😂

[@josephmalham725]

I guarantee you a lot of them did go to college and had successful careers beforehand, the cartels have enough money to get high quality talent

[@SilveniumTheDrifter]

They'd be stifled. Companies and corporate don't want to create long lasting or genuine products any more -- it's all planned obsolescence.

[@wumi2419]

​@@SilveniumTheDrifterwell, as far as I understand these are disposable too, but they probably have a lot less budget constraints. And missing deadlines likely has more consequences.

[@bojanperko]

Splendid, as always. Well done. Thank you.

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks 👍🏻

[@MrTak44]

WHOA popomedic @ 13:48 that's a crossover I was not expecting.

[@bashkillszombies]

Imagine being in the middle of the ocean on a submarine and hearing a knock on the hatch.

[@lumgs2009]

Excellent video! A pleasure to watch 👏👏👏

[@henrikpersson5420]

1:58 is so unsophisticated. Its silver (currency), or lead (as in a bullet). A beautifully crafted sentence considering its horrific consequences.

[@MadisonAtteberry]

"and no one knew what the next decade would bring." What ever number comes after '7'? "The 1980's" Yeah, knew it.

[@ou4534]

Awesome video, great channel ✌️

[@Tekisasubakani]

Excellent video, as always. Unrelated, but have you ever read "Descent Into Darkness" by Edward Raymer? He was the senior NCO of the first group of divers sent to Pearl Harbor. It is a fascinating and horrifying look into the aftermath of Dec 7th and the efforts that went into salvaging, recovery and cleanup. If you've read it, what did you think, and is it something you would do a video on?

[@waterlinestories]

I haven’t read it. I’ll look it up. But yes I have Pearl Harbor salvage on the list. It’s not come up for production yet but it’s on the list.

[@Tekisasubakani]

@@waterlinestories I'm sure said video will be worth the wait. And I think you'll enjoy the book, it's not long but it's quite the read.

[@echomande4395]

Drachinifel did a three part miniseries on the recovery operations that happened after Dec 7th and it is well worth watching.

[@HateGoogie-ez5cf]

1kg in norther Europe costs between 23000-42000$ Today.

[@waterlinestories]

That’s cut 8 times from Sunday 🤣

[@280SE]

@@waterlinestoriesyea it’s bloody awful 😂

[@CAL1MBO]

Chump change

[@waterlinestories]

@280SE 😂

[@nonna_sof5889]

Personal experience?

[@ramcharger154]

The ingenuity of these subs is fascinating to me! I know they are designed to be semi-disposable and those old ones don't look like the hull could handle submerging empty? With those expertly crafted 2x4 rafters over the dope in the hull!!😂😂 The new ones are sick! If I lived in Florida I'd try and find a derelict one just to ef with😂😂❤

[@romanempire8139]

Hey WS. I really enjoy your content. I use it to fall asleep or when I'm busy I listen to it. Do you happen to watch Scary Interesting? Another KZbinr on the platform does Diving / Cave Videos as well

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks. Yes I’m in touch with Sean from scary interesting on email sometimes.

[@Harvey529]

3:38 no money left in demon hunting, eh, Cass?

[@shiftymcgee4183]

Love your stuff man, please add credit for H Sutton too, he's such a hidden gem :)

[@all3ykat79]

Bit of a different Waterline video... exceptionally good though.

[@waterlinestories]

🤣 thanks

[@Name-ot3xw]

It's looking more and more like the narcosub is pretty close to the ideal small military ship. Now in drone-ship flavor.

[@smooij3199]

legalize and regulate. the only way forward. protect the environment, protect the farmers, the chemists and the end users.

[@marcoperoni4735]

Nearly every weekend over 30 years I've been able to buy a gram or two. Never any shortage. The war on drugs is a waste of money.

[@IHWKR]

Waterline Stories are getting closer to Waterboard stories 😂

[@waterlinestories]

Ooooh good idea. 🤣

[@sqike001ton]

on one thing to add the reason cocaine has become popular in Europe is in the states crack has fallen out of favor for meth

[@waterlinestories]

Now that’s a hard drug

[@mikemurphy5898]

2:20 soooo, they were making $500MM/yr on 70-100 tons annually. (Let's say $500MM/100 tons = $5MM/ton) Then...they made $13B/yr shipping 15 tons per day. (15x365=5,475 tons annually @ $5MM/ton, would be ~$27.3B/yr) They must have significantly discounted their tons! Half price tons! Get 'em while they're hot!!

[@stephenolson532]

The USS Entrepreneurship 😳👮😵

[@waterlinestories]

😂

[@bingbong8961]

These documentery style videos are so well made you deserve more views for these.

[@MartinPHE]

Really should hear about HMT Lancastria, HMS Glorious, HMS Royal George, HMS Association, HMS Wager, HMS Gloucester, The White Ship, HMS Serpent, SS Mendi, HMS Bounty, HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue, and HMS Cressy.. The brits were so bad at sea its a wonder they made it to an Island at all.

[@tocsa120ls]

8:55 that's the "scuttle switch". If caught, open it and sink the boat.

[@somethinglikethat2176]

You'd wanna be able to get out quick. Also I wonder if the authorities would bother trying to recover the sub if it sunk in deep waters.

[@richardwills3927]

$100 a gram? I thought it was cheaper in America. It was £50 a gram in the UK in the 90’s Have no idea what current prices are. i heard all the drugs are being laced with prescription medication.

[@lenerdenator]

We really just gonna ignore the fact that the guy at 4:59 has a monkey friend on his shoulder?

[@volvo09]

Oh yeah! Little brown monkey buddy!

[@kareemabdul-jabbar1962]

Lmao😂

[@kareemabdul-jabbar1962]

You made my morning good eye

[@RedVRCC]

With how much those cartels make, I wonder if they'll ever decide to start developing offensive capabilities for their subs, maybe like deck guns or short range surface to air missiles to shoot down helicopters or drones.

[@DARTHNECRION]

I’ve often wondered this myself. Maybe to protect their shipment from being stolen by a rival gang or cartel, but probably not against law enforcement. They’re not brazen enough for an open confrontation brought on by bringing down a DEA or USCG helicopter, they don’t want that smoke.

[@RedVRCC]

@DARTHNECRION yeah you're probably right about engaging law enforcement or military. That's a level of escalation they most likely really, really don't want nor are ready for.

[@catube6915]

What surprise me is not the traffic but the number of people using all this substance, people you don't even suspect.

[@tezy0193]

Life sucks most of the time, 90% of humanity ist slaving away in 9-5 jobs their whole life .. its a way to relax, to flee the reality .. can you blame them

[@A_sad_vegetable]

@@tezy0193 man you’re really trying to rationalize this for yourself. Yes, yes I can blame them 😂

[@DARTHNECRION]

@@tezy0193That’s a pretty pathetic way to go about life, ain’t it?

[@b1646717]

Can you imagine losing a load of the cartels dope? I would run like hell too.

[@svenlima]

When those agents burn the confiscated cocaine and then get a sniff of the smoke - are they getting stoned? :-)

[@ElectricSmurf]

To think all the good that money could do instead of ruining people’s lives and making criminals millionaires. I despair and despise humanity so much at times.

[@fatovamingus]

And while alllll this was going on, Puerto Ricans were strolling in with a better and cheaper product. Nancy Reagan just said Fu#k It. The 80's never should have ended.

[@Alexiosftw]

0:12 he sounds like bstchld 😂

[@tyrrellnel2840]

Hahahahaha

[@tyrrellnel2840]

Even looks like him

[@George-fu9vu]

20:00 The floats have nothing to do with the subs, that's dumped over board by large container ships for locals to pick up.

[@Me-zo8yc]

Really interesting!

[@waterlinestories]

👌🏻

[@George-fu9vu]

17:55 40k to 85k a kg is the street value, not what the cartel would earn. They will sell it for 20k to 30k a kg to local dealers and then they are done with it.

[@waterunderthefridge6058]

Drugs and maritime antics, you'll have to do an episode on the Pong Su incident, a North Korean drug running ship off Australia in 2003

[@Palmit_]

hi @waterlinestories have been binge-ing on your vids for a few weeks now. but one question that you never have answered in your incredibly good explanations, how do wave heights get measured? how do they know "20 meters high" or such? it baffles me. i guessed maybe viewer has a tall main mast in eyeline.. but thats completely rare, near impossible, one in a million scenario for obvious reasons. So how do they measure wave and swell heights?

[@DarkInvader1963]

Another Great Video, DEA Sponsored...Right ?

[@waterlinestories]

Product placement 🤣

[@Pewnhound112]

Only two ways to stop this: 1. Stop Americans from doing coke (HAHAHAHAH). 2. Legalize it and remove the criminal enterprise aspect from the market entirely.

[@DARTHNECRION]

If we legalized it, wouldn’t more people want to try it out of curiosity and end up addicted?

[@Pewnhound112]

@@DARTHNECRIONthe only answer I have to your question is “maybe, but also maybe not”. More people drank per capita during prohibition than during any other time in the United States.

[@Zaetobe1]

This one is not like anything I've seen you cover before, i love it! Keep up the great work!

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks. Just trying to mix it up a little.

[@MizMite2002]

Coke. You`ll spend a hundred and then steal thousands for the drug.

[@gehtdianschasau8372]

Wouldn't 4,5 tons of charge be enough to sink a ship? Couldn't that be useful in wars? Maybe i'm thinking about it the wrong way, it is pretty much a coke torpedo and torpedos have been used for ages.

[@nonna_sof5889]

2:56 Dude sounds like he's doing an ad for them. Just something about his tone.

[@Zenobeus]

50 million street value isn't the same as the value of the product before it leaves it's location, 2 tonnes of coke is a drop in the bucket at the scale of production. Those large numbers were for regular people like myself that thought the war on drug were working...

[@jazzy_jaymond]

killer thumbnail gotta say

[@waterlinestories]

🤣👍🏻

[@acidrock9935]

Read Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs, also author of A Clockwork Orange. He makes a very true statement about the war on drugs. He says, in NakedLunch, As long as there is a demand for the drug, there will be a supply of the drug. So busting these guys is just enforcing the law and has no affect on the so called war.

[@VeteranSquiggle]

How do they actually destroy the cocaine? Proper question im actually interested in the answer

[@Adam_The_Archivist]

You have to ask where are the narcos getting the technology for the submersibles they are using. Only nation states have radar absorbing materials one in particular that is known to deal with the cartels, China. Keep it out of our sphere of influence and we will work with you is the Chinese business moto so it shouldn’t be too much of a stretch to connect the dots. Thanks for a very detailed and informative video!

[@BlackPill-pu4vi]

The science of building a fully functioning submarine has been well known for a century now. I'm surprised the narco builders never thought of acquiring a 20,000 gallon propane storage tank. They can be had on the used market and are perfect in every way for making a narco submarine out of. Unlike the current low profile semi submersibles, a large propane storage tank is easily strong enough to submerge to 100' depth. It has plenty of room for all the stuff needed to travel submerged and occasionally come up to recharge batteries and change out the stale air. It can use commercially available stuff used by fishermen and pleasure boats i.e. radios, fish finders to act as ersatz sonar, depth finders, and navigation radars when on the surface. A narco sub doesn't have to perform any military function so, that will make it easier to concentrate on functions relevant to the crew and its ability to deliver the drugs.

[@robbielime8477]

Not a disaster video for a change. Very well put together 👍

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks 👍🏻

[@josephdouglas6482]

This is like some unreal movie/Grand Theft Auto type stuff, it's almost hard to believe. Pablo Escobar was kinda nuts..

[@alfaeco15]

As long as drugs is such a hugely profitable business, there is no end or victory on this war.

[@tamarockstar09]

You said the made from what the cartel could scavenge… they don’t need to scavenge they have billions. They can get anything they want and build it however they want. They don’t have limited resources

[@mickeynismocat]

Now you just get it sent in the mail lol

[@DF-et4gs]

Wasn't the C 1 A also involved in running drugs? It helped fund their other elicit off the books activities from my understanding.

[@arnoldskit]

They sure did, tons of it. The cartels probably wouldn't let them legalize it, they'd lose too much money!

[@pieterveenders9793]

Yes, heroin from the golden triangle (Birma, Laos & Cambodia) at the time of the Vietnam war, and later cocaine from South America, used to fund right wing death squad in that same South America. For a country which claims to be all about "freedom and democracy" they sure are responsible for a lot of the exact opposite....

[@michaelmoorrees3585]

"What the next decade would bring". Even worse fashion, and Miami Vice. Neither good !

[@waterlinestories]

I seem to recall the hair styles were 😞

[@willmachado1]

What about a rc operated sub from a nearby fishing boat?

[@ellomirza]

They say “very sophisticated submarines” but if I had narco level money to make a sub that mfr would look like Mercedes made it.

[@KlaunFuhrer-du7fr]

how many such subs have sunk in accident, we will never know about

[@drvinylscratch1936]

Idk if it's true but I hear some of these subs would use a magnet and just hitch a ride on a cargo ship. Allowing for engine off east travel

[@codyshafer4369]

They forgot when the CIA and gwb admitted to smuggling cocaine!

[@BaronVonQuiply]

NGL, the best way to travel if you don't mind cramped quarters and really love flour ..that was what now?

[@valkry007]

These subs will eventually evolve, with better trained crews and weapons to protect their product. Imagine a second sub armed with a simple torpedo. When the coast guard cutter stops to board the mule sub, they sink the cutter.

[@BlackPill-pu4vi]

I'm surprised the narco builders never thought of acquiring a 20,000 gallon propane storage tank. They can be had on the used market and are perfect in every way for making a narco submarine out of. Unlike the current low profile semi submersibles, a large propane storage tank is easily strong enough to submerge to 100' depth. It has plenty of room for all the stuff needed to travel submerged and occasionally come up to recharge batteries and change out the stale air. It can use commercially available stuff used by fishermen and pleasure boats i.e. radios, fish finders to act as ersatz sonar, depth finders, and navigation radars when on the surface. The science of building a fully functioning submarine has been well known for a century now. A narco sub doesn't have to perform any military function so, that will make it easier to concentrate on functions relevant to the crew and its ability to deliver the drugs.

[@SpectreGunship]

I took down three of these things in Operation Ghost Recon Wildlands. Cant say anymore, its classified.

[@pedzsan]

Making cocaine illegal is a relatively recent change. Before, it was legal and was also added to common products. Are we sure we are on the right path here? What would really be the cost of making it legal? What would we save in enforcement costs? Make it legal, tax it, produce it locally so the quality is consistent. Prohibit minors from buying it.

[@BlackPill-pu4vi]

There's decades and decades of political capital invested in the big lie. That and so many other lies that can never be walked back. No matter the evidence and proof.

[@OriginalCoalRollers]

Wish I had a few keys of columbian coke

[@chris47374]

Cartel needs to contact me I have a way of moving large amounts undetected with neither either party being liable.

[@Kingstoncroes]

I wouldn’t invest in that kind of market cap crazy

[@Lasvegasnowman1]

How much would cocaine cost if it were legal and what would happen to the cartels.??

[@Thegoldenziptie]

El chapo out making youtube videos now? You go

[@cybersentient4758]

Bruh imagine how rich south America will be if they legalized drugs and taxed them to high heaven, only the rich will be able to afford them and they will slowly be weeded out of normal society. Win win for everyone