Got to give them credit for trying. Really does sound extreme though.

Mary, it's quite possible they've succeeded in the past. It's more difficult for law enforcement to learn about what they don't catch.

That was only a test. They wanted to see how low our Radar force field is. Wait for the "biggie" to come flying over. Next 55 Gallon drums, OUCH! when one of those hit you.

85lbs = $42,500
1360oz = $31.25 per ounce
38555.4 grams = $1.012 per gram

As David pointed out, it is probably dirt. This leads to the question of what methods AZ Border Patrol puts in place for valuation of narcotics.

It was worth a shot!

The funny part was they say it was unsuccessful,but yet they also say they discovered the cans. What they did, was discover them before they were picked up. They had already made it over the boarder,so they were successful at getting them in. They just got lucky with the timing.

Sell it Colorado!!!! Dummies....

You guys have to understand that $31.25 an oz is wholesale. It would probably be something like $150.00 an oz on the street. They wouldn't attempt to smuggle dirt weed into the US.

However, this could have been a "test" to see the outcome thus using dirt weed but you'd think they would've stuffed the cans with leaves in that case but I feel this was not a test and the Feds just happen to catch it this time of many others they missed.

Next they'll try to shoot an illegal in a 55 gal. drum with a prarchute to slow the landing.

They wouldn't attempt to smuggle dirt weed into the US? How do you think it gets here. Hell, that's all I smoked when I was a pothead.

GM Creek Dog

Ahhh, Adapt, Improvise and Overcome the obstacles! It may take a few tries to get success, but once that is experienced, the delivery path is viable. Perhaps next time, in a more remote area?

I like your thought of

Next they'll try to shoot an illegal in a 55 gal. drum with a prarchute to slow the landing

Mornin' & thanks jack....Mornin' Bill, when you get here :-)

Anrkist,

We grow our own dirt weed here. That's how we get it in the US. Why would they want to take those kind of chances to smuggle dirt weed across the border?

Growing up, we harvested our own right out back.....

I have also read story's of people shooting (Bow and Arrow) coke etc... fastened to an arrow over the fence and within the yards of prisons for the prisoners. Rarely did the guards even notice. They used arrows that would blend in with the sky so it was harder to detect while in flight.

gm Creek Dog, jack

Mexican space launch.

Actually Creek Dog when agencies report the "catch" the denomination is usually street level. Price varies from state to state an ounce in Colorado runs about $120 while in Florida it runs about $300, in New York about $450. So the estimate for this Mexican garbage is probably spot on..

GM Denver Bill

Maybe Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass can "send them off" with "A Taste of Honey"?

As others have pointed out, the $35 per ounce is a wholesale price. Imagine what will happen to the drug cartels when $35 becomes the retail price. I'm thinking they will revert back to growing corn.

Dirt weed? Well if no one wants it I'll still take it.

You got it! Destroy the cartels with the free market. We need to stop the (dwindling) anti-legalization types from aiding and abetting terrorism. Normally we send a drone after people who help terrorists. Legalization means not wasting billions on an unjust and unwinnable war on a plant (when have we ever eradicated a weed?) It also means a lot of American jobs.

Legalize it!

Law enforcement always use the street price- makes it sound like they are actually doing something. And they use the same numbers wether its dirt or good quality- so I'm guessing the AZ cops just can't do math...

I don't want anymore governmental waste of taxpayer money. Bring it here in Tennessee and I will destroy it properly, and tax free in about a month or 2.

@trust2112: it's always nice to see people step forward to do their civic duty. We need more of that kind of volunteerism; 4:20 PM would be a great time to organize a meeting about this.

Seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through when you can just ask your doctor to write a bull$#!+ note for you, and get it from the drugstore.

Takes ANGERY BIRDS to a whole other level...

Or, I got it...I got it...I got it...SPLAT

OK, first North Korea, now Mexico?

I guess I'd rather be hit with a round of marijuana than a Titan nuclear warhead.

ZMan2012

Seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through when you can just ask your doctor to write a bull$#!+ note for you, and get it from the drugstore.

Doctor: "What condition do you have that might be treatable with medical marijuana?"

Patient: "I get nervous and irritable when I run out of marijuana."

Doctor: "Here's your prescription."

In other news "15 tractor trailer loads of high grade marijuana slipped through border check points while border control agents were busy picking up cans of dirt weed".

PLEASE! CARTEL!! Get in touch with North Korea. With their economy, they'd be glad to drop some for you. WORLD WIDE! Just send the good stuff. What goes missing over there will help world stability and make for a lot of happy N Korens.

It was their monthly delivery to the Customs and Border Protection officials on patrol..for the poker game Friday night ; ) .....Border Patrol tips well too so they get express delivery. That pesky little journalist was there this time so they gotta play it down for a few days.

Everybody else has to use the tunnels.

We must set up the Patriot and Iron Dome systems! If Mexico can't control these narco-terrorists, we may have to invade!

They need to watch more Roadrunner cartoons for clues on how to improve their operation.

One of those larage pumpkin catapults (Trebuchet I believe) have been known to toss projectiles half a mile which would put this pneumatic canon to shame.

and so another guy blows his load------ all over. but comes up rather short!

first- that angry birds comment was hilarous.

second- come on already with this 31 dollars an ounce crap.... that's just the first change of hands...by the time it gets to any of us it's 40 an 1/8th

finally- i wonder how these clowns are going to 'destroy' marijuana.... sounds like they're gonna be burning down the house all night long!

I think the North Koreans are working on the worlds first Intercontinental Ballistic Marijuana!

All the Mexicans are capable of is short range, tactical marijuana.

How do you get your lips around a cannon-bong>?

How do you get your lips around a cannon-bong>?

Ask Madonna, she'll know.

Just legalize it already and stop with this "war on drugs" nonsense.

In the border states, Mexican brick weed is really cheap. It sucks, but it's still really cheap. 500/lb all day in Texas.

All that hard work, just to get blasted.

Any weed with seeds is dirt weed - if you have to sit and clean it for an hour before you can smoke it - it's dirt weed. It may not be 1968 dirt weed, but it ain't no sticky purple pung either.

For Top Shelf weed at the recently opened Medical Marijuana office here in Tucson, they want $500 an ounce. How is that going to affect the illegal trade, it won't, not at those prices.

It will be destroyed, according to a statement from the agency.

It will be destroyed the way ALL confiscated narcotics are destroyed.... in my BONG! :-)

They don't know that. It could have been Bullseye or Blue Dot.

Cheetah I don't know how many people will get that, but I did, and that was the FIRST thing I thought when I read the article...isn't Unique a little fast for cannons?

I think 8.5 grains of it will work for nearly any long barrel - even pot cannons. I love the stuff with cast.

I use 7.5 gns with 158 plated bullets for range bullets in my .357. Loves 'em!

The news agencies act like this is something new. I live on the other side of the state on the AZ/Mexico border in SE Cochise County. I live six blocks from the border and have been hearing these things for months. People around here have known what the cartels are doing for the last 3 or 4 months. It's been driving the Border Patrol nuts! They have also used catapaults and ultralight aircraft to get the lods across. All have very distinctive sounds tht you learn to recognize after a while.

BMette ~

Too bad they don't use some of that great ingenuity to improve conditions in their country so we aren't overrun by their riff-raff.

Mexican riff-raff sending drugs to American riff-raff.

Next stop, a redesign cannon ammunition delivery can to open in mid-air and eject thousands of tiny drug vials over an acre of land. The drug vials have 50% of having real drugs and 50% fake lookalike in it. Purpose is to provide a distraction to keep local enforcement busy picking up tiny finger size drug vials while the bulk of the drugs cross the border. Offer 10% off and stock up on inventory at the same time. When the heat is on, jack up price and empty inventory for triple big profit. Go on vacation and repeat. Stop and retire after three repeat. The money made is not in the drugs smuggling but in proof of concept call intellectual rights. I am sure some cartel can find fancy to outright own it. SEE?

ahem... above statement is not about the business. It is a wake up call to DEA agency to pay attention to its already overburden budget. Apparently goverment agency have a lack of spending problem in research and development to find use of technology to assist field agents. I am not aware of any spending by Drug Enforncement Agency to find to purchase an all terrain robots to pick up trash debris over an acre of land. Already the drug cartels have their r&d development delivery of drugs by canon and successfully tested as a result of this news article. In no time, the area reached by these drug cannons can spread tiny drug vials over and acre of land. The law says to bring it in and destroy it, right? The tiny vials would be spread by criminals and their drug cannons, it is not a mother nature thing. SEE?

BMette

First, there was the giant catapult which flung the drugs across the border (true!!), and now they're shooting drugs across by cannon! Ingenuity! What next???

Low-rider ATV's?

Myth Busters being a security threat? LOL

Never mind the marijuana; they could have sold that cannon to our government for a good deal more than the weed was worth. Even 'contraband ' toilet seats go for six hundred dollars apiece, last I heard, and they might be a great deal more aerodynamic.

the next you ask

well me n dad is buildin a roket thats got a pay haul for mabe 300 pounds

and aft she dumps its goina come bak for another lode just lik the us army does

In spite of the fed's best efforts the pot trade appears to be "booming."

maybe they could just get a brand new rocket from north korea!!

but what is the point? if the states keep legalizing pot, it would take a lot of incentive out of the mexican stuff. at least lower their profits.

nomdeplume, the american auto industry has done plenty to improve things in Mexico. The Mexican gov't is just waiting for more American companies to be drawn to their cheap labor and things will improve on their own.

If they could boost the power of their weed cannon so that the cans could reach Colorado, where weed is legal, I think they'd have a hell of a profitable business model.

didn't find one, but the beautiful stonework and manicured shrubs around the hole were proof enough that Mexicans were there

this is a test of the emergency marijuana deployment system, this is only a test!!!

We grow our own. Keep the "drug war" in your own backwards states. Thank you, very much.

We in Washington State can possess pot legally, up to an ounce. That includes hash oil, by the way. We don't have a system by which we can grow it, purchase it, or sell it, yet. The black market is still chugging along. The prosecutors will no longer file charges for simple possession, the cops will not arrest you, or seize your pot if you have less than an OZ.

The State is supposed to set up the system. But the way they handled the liquor business (highest taxes in the US, Soviet bloc style stores) got them booted out of that by the voters. Now you can buy liquor in grocery stores, but a bottle that is ten bucks in California still costs $25 here.

Taxpayers will be paying lawyers on both sides of this argument for at least a decade: The Feds vs. the State.

The best way to resolve the pot issue is to move it down from a Schedule l to a Schedule V drug under the Controlled Substances Act, with an eye to removing it completely and legalizing it for adult use.

The joke going around here: Since we now have homosexual marriage and pot possession legalized, it lends a different meaning to Leviticus: "Man that lieth with man shall be stoned".

Now that smoking pot is legal here, will the paranoia lessen?

We need to bring the National Guard home, and post them along the US/Mexico border. Legally entering my country, no problem. Crossing illegally? We need to start enforcing the law.

with the increasing availability of drones and reverse designed drones, it won't be long until (if not already) the very well financed cartels use them to smuggle drugs into America. Personally, I think adults should have access to marijuana. That marijuana should be grown and taxed in America. Besides being a personal freedoms issue, it is a financing illegal (and deadly) foreign drug cartels issue.

With our now very lax election finance laws, it is inevitable that these very wealthy drug barons are contributing to "law and order" candidates to ensure that their products stay illegal and therefore more expensive.

Good observation - they've already bought all the politicians in Mexico, wonder if they're doing it here now.

zheng - Waste of time firing to Washington - up here we have BC bud coming in by land and sea. Much better quality than anything from Mexico...or so I'm told. :)

Of course they have bought all of the politicians here. Without the drug war, what happens to all of those private companies that now run our prisons, here we are with 5% of the population but 25% of the people in jail. The DEA would rather bust some pot head than get off their fat worthless A$$es and go after bad guys. Look at Erick Holder, our esteemed attorney general, you bet Guzman is nailing him in the behind. I am a 55 year old white man and I don't smoke but the drug war is the most stupid usless endeavor we have ever done.

LOL...

yeah, just when some states are legalizing it....

gm mimi

Thanks for sticking up for me yesterday. I see you got collapsed for your trouble.

Collapse ...... the response of choice for people who are too lazy or too ignorant to argue a point they disagree with.

hah... fly balls that'll make you fly!

Corruption! In the government!! Say it isn't so!

lol

Unless they declare martial law, the military cannot patrol the border. However, the National Guard can.

Whatever it takes, money, product, sex. Our elected officials that are paid from the taxes taken from our wages is not enough to run for re-election, pacs and dirty monies from any source, and we still get fools and bum kissers from the bottom of the gene pool. Donkey or Elephant it doesn't matter anymore they're all just playing with our hard earned money and grabbing fistfuls from any source that'll keep'em in office. Your needs are second to their desires for fame and power, look at me I'm a U.S representative respect and admire all that I am because you'll never get so close to me to see that I'm really just a vapor cloud with no spine or morals!!!

JohnWW1: didn't Congress declare a "war on drugs" ?

Of course, we have been losing that one since it was declared.

WA and CO just surrendered in the war against marijuana, several other states (CA, Wash. DC, and some 17 or 18 others) have done a retreat.

Eventually, the feds won't be able to find a state where the state hasn't declared it legal.

JohnWW1,

Better check out that Potus law thing a little more closely. The military can legally patrol our border, it just can't be used to enforce civil law in our cities, states, etc.

ThinkWise,,,Maybe you could just move south of that border. Maybe you will like it better than here in mean old Arizona. LOL Write when you want to come back. LOL

Think Wise...what a misnomer! Better name would be Speak Dumb.

With you on their lap.

ArizonaBill - you do realize that a lot of Mexican Americans in Arizona are from families that lived here long before we stole the land from Mexico? Maybe they should send you back where you came from.

Middle, don't start that argument. The only people that can ultimately win it are indigenous natives! LOL

Gary Ward if they fired pot and beer over,you would be out of luck. The pot heads would be collecting both while your drunk a$$ was stagering around looking for it.

I'd much rather be around someone smoking weed than drinking. Pot heads are alot happier than a bunch of drunks!

I just don't like the govt. telling me what I can or cannot do. The DEA is nothing more than a waste of oxygen. I am 55 don't smoke but 1973 was the beginning of the war on drugs, it didn't work. I think we should militarize our border, as we do have the right but we will never stop the drugs. In the 80s we went after the Colombians bringing it in on the east coast and we just forced it into Mexico. The drug war has been like squeezing a balloon. As for the illegals here, get real they are here to stay, education, learn the language, pay back taxes and lets get on with life.

Now THAT I'll throw my support behind! ;D

"Quick Scotty, spark me up....I mean beam me up"

well, they can start by tying together a gross of bottle rockets...

No real value in Washington - we have BC bud; a superior product. LOL

BC superior product?..........thats too bad for you. Its garbage. i say good day.

Or better yet, tight assed morons.

"to bad"... "saved improved"

who's the retard?

You're perscription free? Never taken any type of mind altering substance like an anti depressant or a valium? No bp meds or E.D. drugs? You never even had a beer or a sip of wine, lips that touch liquor will never touch mine!!!

thank god for the second amendment John, do us all a favor you pompoust arrogant a$$, put the barrel against your forehead and firmly pull the trigger

nightmare secnario marijuana with no thc content read a article about it aperantly they have it in isreal

Without THC it's called rope!!! been around for years, better start reading and stop playing with your device John Anderson!!!

I would respectfully like to know why your so dead set against Pot? I am 60 years old, own four prosperous businesses, am a good thriving member of the community, healthy, active and loving life. I have been moderately/socially using pot since I was roughly 16 or 17, and have no regrets. I do however have great memories of good times with friends who by the way consist of Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, Police, Sheriff's and of course fellow business owners. Last but not least, if you truly believe Bill Clinton didn't inhale, I have some prime beach front property I'd love to sell you in Yuma AZ., look it up you'll get it, hopefully.

Good luck and have a great day, I'll be looking for your reply

@buck... nice to know that there is more then one normal person out there. Thanks

Two morons

No, we are NOT paying down the debt with that $$. It should go where its needed most. How about treatment programs instead of jail for offenders who carry small amounts of drugs that kill? Alcohol is a drug..WHAT?! ALCOHOL IS A DRUG.

The profits will end up in PRIVATE pockets = in the "Pot Baron's" pockets. The small fees that go to the government will get eaten, many times over!, by the cost of taking care of the potheads and their illnesses and mistakes (traffic accidents included).

Buck Rogers: I'm pushing 60, as well.

I worked in a drug rehab center for some time. I have seen some things that most people would never wish on anyone. Every single one of the people, who were there, all started out on the gateway drug of marijuana. All of them. Not everyone goes down that road of the next level of bad, but many, many do. Just as some folks can drink alcohol and not become an alcoholic, some do. (BTW, I'm against alcohol abuse, but that's my personal point of view, too.)

I have seen the outcomes of terrible drug abuse, and it's very ugly and sometimes deadly. I would wish it on no one. If I could prevent it by "just saying no," I would in a heartbeat. I live in reality, but I have seen some horrors that would curl your toenails, even on your beachfront property.

As I said, not everyone goes down that road, but if it would prevent just one from becoming another dreadful statistic, I'd say get rid of it all.

Sorry infidel, the money's going to be spent on a war or something really bad like more lawmakers!!!

I just want you to know dumb a$$, interdiction costs over 40 billion every year, we are 5% of the worlds population but have 25% of the people in jail. We lead China by 1 million people in jail. Dumb stupid things like the drug war is why we have a deficit. Oh I am 55 make 6 figures and don't smoke dope.,

zapper45701 you claim to be helping the addicted by taking a stance against pot? You are a liar because you understand nothing about drugs and therefore understand nothing about the people you are claiming to work with.

Yes, there are some horrible substances out there, and too many have suffered from using them, but you are doing those who do need help a disservice by lying.