WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news: By Capt. Daniel A. Laliberte, U. S. Coast Guard retired Part I: The First 30 years With a seizure of opium near the entrance to San Francisco Bay in November 1886, cutters of the Revenue Marine Service began a fight against maritime drug smuggling that continues to this day. The smuggling of opium into the west coast prompted the entry of the Coast Guard -- at earlier times called the Rev  more