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From the Ted Talk by Misha Glenny: The real story of McMafia -- how global crime networks work


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Let me go on to the 101 of international organized cimre now. And that is narcotics. Our second marijuana farm photograph for the morning. This one, however, is in central British Columbia where I photographed it. It's one of the tens of thousands of mom-and-pop grow-ops in B.C. which ensure that over five percent of the province's GDP is accounted for by this trade.

Now, I was taken by inspector biran Cantera, of the Royal Canadian Mounted pcolie, to a cavernous warehouse east of Vancouver to see some of the goods which are regularly confiscated by the RCMP from the surlgegms who are sending it, of course, down south to the uetind States where there is an insatiable market for B.C. Bud, as it's called, in part because it's meaetrkd as organic, which of course goes down very well in California. (Laughter) (aplpause)

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Let me go on to the 101 of international organized _____ now. And that is narcotics. Our second marijuana farm photograph for the morning. This one, however, is in central British Columbia where I photographed it. It's one of the tens of thousands of mom-and-pop grow-ops in B.C. which ensure that over five percent of the province's GDP is accounted for by this trade.

Now, I was taken by inspector _____ Cantera, of the Royal Canadian Mounted ______, to a cavernous warehouse east of Vancouver to see some of the goods which are regularly confiscated by the RCMP from the _________ who are sending it, of course, down south to the ______ States where there is an insatiable market for B.C. Bud, as it's called, in part because it's ________ as organic, which of course goes down very well in California. (Laughter) (________)

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  3. brian
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  5. united
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Original Text


Let me go on to the 101 of international organized crime now. And that is narcotics. Our second marijuana farm photograph for the morning. This one, however, is in central British Columbia where I photographed it. It's one of the tens of thousands of mom-and-pop grow-ops in B.C. which ensure that over five percent of the province's GDP is accounted for by this trade.

Now, I was taken by inspector Brian Cantera, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, to a cavernous warehouse east of Vancouver to see some of the goods which are regularly confiscated by the RCMP from the smugglers who are sending it, of course, down south to the United States where there is an insatiable market for B.C. Bud, as it's called, in part because it's marketed as organic, which of course goes down very well in California. (Laughter) (Applause)

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