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Editorial: Canada to blame for reservation drugs
Thursday, February 23, 2006
"Canada’s relaxed attitude toward street drugs might be no one’s concern but its own – if the consequences weren’t always spilling over the country’s border.
As it happens, Canada’s relatively tolerant approach to drugs – including heroin and cocaine – has made it an ideal base for drug-trafficking operations that reach into the United States. A particularly appalling example is the OxyContin smuggling ring organized by a young Lummi Indian, Eugenia Phair.
As reported Monday by The New York Times, Phair built a drug-smuggling “business” that – at its height in 2003 and 2004 – employed 12 to 15 other Lummi women as mules.
From the Lummi reservation just south of the Canadian border, they would drive to Vancouver to buy OxyContin, a prescription narcotic that produces a morphine-like high when ground into powder. Each woman would buy 60 to 80 pills, stow them in condoms hidden in body cavities, then sneak them back to the reservation."
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