Good thing this was one of the "low risk" shippers. This was the official Mexican Government drug trafficking cartel and the proof of that will be the lack of arrests or any sort of real investigation of this incident, especially south of the border. The truck driver, who is probably innocent anyway, will be released in a month or two ( or however long it takes Americans to forget the incident ) and it will be like it never happened. They might even send the drugs back to the Mexican Government to be repackaged and sent on another northbound shipment; Mexico will need that material as "evidence" for their sham investigation.
Is there any wonder that they got this program rolling at the same time they stepped up border patrol presence and fence building? Gotta keep the narcotics flowing.
I can guarantee you that the drugs will be destroyed. The bulk of it has most likely already been destroyed.
The official number was 8.85 tons. That's 17,700 pounds of marijuana. At a half-gram of marijuana in a typical joint, and 453 grams in a pound, that makes 16,036,200 joints that aren't on the street. Sixteen million.
Thought of another way, that's a year's supply of marijuana for 43,934 people who smoke one joint a day, every day.