Your air cannon is like a hamster fart and your weed smells like elderberries!
Posted on 12/12/2016 12:58:16 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Smuggling illicit drugs across the U.S border is a lucrative business. From hiding hundreds of pounds of cocaine or marijuana in vehicles, funneling it through tunnels under fenced areas or shipping it across the Florida coastline, drug dealers based in countries like Mexico and Cuba are pretty inventive in finding ways to get their contraband past border agents and into the United States.
So inventive, in fact, that U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that over the weekend, drug smugglers in Mexico used an air cannon to launch a pile of weed across the border into the U.S.
According to the report, the drug package was subsequently picked up by a couple of teenaged U.S. citizens – who were then picked up themselves by border patrol. CBP officials stated:
On Dec. 7, after Border Patrol agents using multi-surveillance capabilities detected what appeared to be drugs being launched from Mexico into Naco, Arizona, two agents responded to investigate.
When agents arrived at the reported location, they discovered two juvenile U.S. citizens with a bundle of marijuana believed to have been fired from an air cannon in Mexico. The bundle, weighing about 34 pounds, was molded into a cylindrical shape approximately the diameter to fit in a 55-gallon drum.
In addition to increasing waves of illegal immigration at the border, the influx of dangerous drugs – often far more powerful than marijuana – is a complex and continuing problem at the border. CBP noted that in 2015, border agents seized close to 9,500 pounds of illegal drugs being smuggled into the United States on a typical day. Averaged out over an entire year, this would mean agents confiscated about 3.5 million pounds worth of drugs last year alone.
For example, last Friday alone, CBP announced they’d arrested a 23-year-old Mexican man after discovering five tons of weed valued at more than $5 million in a shipment of vacuum pumps. That same day, CBP reported finding $370,000 worth of marijuana hidden inside a horse trailer, another 190 pounds of weed stashed inside a Mexican man’s Mazda, $80,000 worth of cocaine being smuggled inside an SUV, 36 pounds of meth stuffed inside a Toyota sedan, 16 pounds of meth in a Honda, nearly half a million worth of cocaine in a Dodge pickup truck, and 17 pounds of meth and five pounds of heroine stashed in freezer bags and smuggled in toy boxes Mexican man’s car.
However staggering these stories may be, agents have noted that the amount of drugs being confiscated at the border – and, more infrequently, at U.S. ports of entry – isn’t much compared to the amount that makes it through unnoticed. In his written testimony before a Senate panel, Chris Cabrera, a border patrol agent with the Rio Grande Valley Sector at the U.S.-Mexico border, told Congress last year that while agents apprehend only 35-40 percent of all illegal aliens who come across the border, they catch even an even lower percentage of the drug smugglers adept at bringing millions worth of drugs across the open border.
As others have said, this is old stuff. I wonder if Brittany thinks she got a scoop?
so based on it being legal in just a handful of states then the smuggling as gone down, and the dealers have dropped and given it up.
LOL Yep everything just hunky dorey today.
Actually watching the left have a meltdown does cheer me up.
Since it ain’t legal yet... When RJR and Winston-Salem get in the market then you know it’s legal, and it will get rid of most of the smuggling since they won’t be able to compete with that distribution network. The exception will be places where they tax it a lot, just like with cigarettes now.
You can bet tax will go up and up, and in the end the dealers win again.
In some areas. Some parts of the country aren’t into taxing the hell out of things. But even then it’ll be more like cigarette smuggling today, the majority of the product on the market will come from large legal companies, some of it will be getting illegally distributed, but it will still source from a legal place. Cartels can’t compete on price, quality, consistency or distribution network with companies able to put identical packs of smokes in every convenience store in the country. These companies already have everything they need (including the seed according many stories), they just need the legal landscape to give them the opportunity.
I’d use a trebuchet.
Why? Their pot is crap.
Need a wall wide enough to walk on.
We should catch them, light them on fire with gasoline and shoot them back.
The teenagers?
Oh, you meant the drug packages!
Yes, drones with mini guns. Works for me.
Your air cannon is like a hamster fart and your weed smells like elderberries!
So long as stupid drug addicts keep up the demand, there will be supply by various methods. Back in 20’s there was alcohol prohibited by law, and that made Al Capone and others very rich.
“I was told that if dope was legal then it would get rid of smugglers, drug dealers, and all would be good.”
If dope is ever legal in all 50 states we might know if it gets rid of the smugglers or not. Since it isn’t...you get the picture.
yea , but having travelled to a few places where it is legal then I won’t hold my breath, especially as the government likes to cash in and make it more expensive.
Is this how illegals are going to get in now...?
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