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5 N.C. Counties Designated 'High Intensity' Areas for Drugs

SomeGuy

668, Neighbor of the Beast
This was news to me. I always figured it was a state thing, but I guess they get federal funding to profile on state highways and on the interstates.

Posted as a heads up for the North Carolina brethren.

BE SAFE!

WRAL.Com

5 N.C. Counties Designated 'High Intensity' Areas for Drugs
Drugs (Generic)

Posted: Today at 11:18 a.m.
Updated: Today at 11:48 a.m.

Washington, D.C. — The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy has designated 26 counties nationwide as High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA). Among the counties named are five in North Carolina – Durham, Johnston, Wake, Wayne and Wilson.

According to a report issued by the federal government on Thursday, the regions "exhibit serious drug-trafficking problems and harmfully impact other areas of the country."

The designation makes additional federal funds, equipment and technology available to those counties for fighting drug production, manufacture and distribution.

The five North Carolina counties are the first in the state to receive this designation and will be part of the Atlanta region's HIDTA.

In 2007, the HIDTA program provided more than $224 million to support drug-enforcement efforts nationwide.
 

ninfan77

Member
The 26 new HIDTA counties are located in Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas.

There are 28 regions throughout the country designated as HIDTAs. HIDTA counties compromise approximately 14 percent of U.S counties, and are present in 45 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia

Google HIDTA and check out how much $ is spent... wow.

If you google HIDTA and a particular state you should get the list.
 

Julian

Canna Consultant
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ninfan77 said:
The 26 new HIDTA counties are located in Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas.

There are 28 regions throughout the country designated as HIDTAs. HIDTA counties compromise approximately 14 percent of U.S counties, and are present in 45 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia

Google HIDTA
Yeah, it's kind of funny, if one checks the nationwide map, it's pretty much the whole country...always has been :biglaugh: I wrote up a bunch of stuff about HIDTA's on OG. Definitely stuff some people should know. :smoke: (Lot of their guys are extremely knowledgeable and very talented......as in eerily so.......)
 

Echoes

Member
Way to go NC, haha! Didn't see this coming, however, I'm not very surprised. Seems to be mainly focused on trafficking and the big guys, though don't think for a second they aren't interested in growers (especially commercial.)
 

RudolfTheRed

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Well I must say I am surprised that Durham is just now being put of the list... Durham has been known for its gang violence & drug market for years now. They have been well above the national average in violent crimes, murders, and drug arrests for a long time too. I wouldn't go to Durham to find weed though, but if you need pcp, crack, cocaine, heroin, pills, etc... you'll certainly find it there. you can find weed to but i doubt its very good. theres been a documentary made called Welcome To Durham and it shows how gangs have infiltrated smaller cities which is sad since Durham is so rich with black history. After the textile mills & tobacco companies left a lot of people got left behind & live in some bad poverty... even though Durham is now known for RTP and Duke today.. but it just goes to show you how segregated things are around there. you have some very privileged, rich areas & a lot of poor people all in the same area. If anyone is familiar with the Duke rape case you might know a little bit of what I am talking about.

The I -85 corridor runs right through Durham too... Which connects to I-40 going east/west and I - 85 goes south/north connecting to major cities like Atlanta & Charlotte, and from I -40 you can travel all the way west hitting lots of major areas. I can understand why this area is being consider a high intensity area for drugs. god bless my state... out west you have a lot of rural areas in which drugs can be manufactured and trafficked via these routes I just mentioned to more populated areas in the state... and out of state. not to mention the population around here has grown exceptionally fast and you can only expect that the drug market will follow.
 
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I live in the mountains of western NC...thank god..its a nightmare in the bigger cities and the Mexicans and gangs are swarming in...the money that drugs generate is beyond belief.

As small city inner urban areas get more and more desperate and crowded, of course the guns and murders will swell. The decent folks with money will move to gated communities and the ghettos will become de facto prison head count generators for the burgeoning private prison industry..with cops acting like prison guards in the ' bad ' areas and keeping the violence away from the voters and wealthy.

As long as Prohibition fuels the markets this will get worse and worse...either the politicians will give in to the will of the majority and change the laws...or they will crack down even worse and force this present system to the breaking point. I have zero faith they will do the right thing.
 

Yes4Prop215

Active member
Veteran
one of the mexican guys who worked as a detailer for my boss said he had family moving major shit through NC, lots of that white girl comin straight from the border.

i doubt they are talkin abuot weed here, its the supply of coke which will eventually be turned into rocks to broke down on corners everywhere in the US..
 

MMAJAY

Member
I live in one of the NC couties listed and we have had a large influx of meth and coke that is really messing up our cities. Don't get me wrong we allways will be a large MJ growing state that kind of sits low on the radar. This is bad news for all MJ folks who grow because it just means more fed money to step on toes.

Just about every month you hear of a large cocaine bust or a meth lab being taken down and of course some of the Grows are calateral damage in my opinion.
 

Preacharound

New member
Man I need to go hang out in those counties. Been in north Charlotte for a month and haven't run into any fellow smokers.


They are everywhere but mostly in suits and ties. That's why charlotte is always dry..cause the bank of america ceo's buy it all up...LOL...

just speculating :D
 
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danimal7

whats the east coast equivalent to Humboldt or Mendocino ?....anyone?
 

RudolfTheRed

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Veteran
Boone, NC
Asheville, NC

Lots of bud grown in Appalachia. In a sense it has replaced moonshine. I would dare to say the marijuana in Appalachia puts California and the whole damn west coast to shame.
 

leaddraft

Active member
It used to be Harrnet Co, NC years back, (mid-70's), I remember the old, times Mag/or was it newsweek on the front cover, with a OLD Farmer dude with a shotgun standing amongst a field of bud..
 

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