pot boom

Remember when Trump was talking about people on the US side of the US Mexico border being hurt by packages of drugs that were being hurled over the border from Mexico? Most of us had a good laugh about it, but there was a grain of truth to it.

Pot Boom

from High Times

An officer shows the cylindrical packet
 fitting in the tube of the bazooka.

Pot smugglers in Mexico have been using a cannon to blast bundles of weed over the border into Douglas, AZ. Mexican authorities found the big gun in a van on the Mexican side, in Agua Prieta, along with 1,800 pounds of weed divvied up into 900 cannonball-size packages. Transnational pot-flinging has been reported elsewhere in the area lately, according to the Arizona Daily Star. In February of last year, Border Patrol agents discovered a weed-tossing catapult attached to the border fence near Douglas's port of entry. In December 2016, a pair of teenagers were nabbed in Cochise County, AZ, after receiving cheeba missiles fired by an air cannon over the border fence into the United States. Three months before that, authorities in Agua Prieta found an air cannon inside a van used to shoot pot packets into Douglas. If the US president ever builds his "big beautiful wall," we can expect more artillery fire from south of the border.