Smuggling weed concealed in a casket across the U.S.-Mexico border near Tombstone, Arizona is an exceptionally dead-end gig.
Over the years, Border Patrol agents have witnessed the implementation of some rather ingenious trafficking techniques for getting the cartels’ illegal narcotics across the U.S. border. From ultralight airdrops to homemade air cannons, Mexico’s drug lords have pushed the envelope of creativity when it comes to running drugs across America’s 2,000-mile southern border.
Generally considered a dying practice, last weekend U.S. Border Patrol agents caught a “28-year-old U.S. citizen” attempting to smuggle 67 pounds of marijuana across a southern Arizona checkpoint.
According to one online report, “The multiple bricks of marijuana had an estimated street value of more than $33,000.”
Suspicious of the white hearse and its confused driver, U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed their drug-sniffing dogs and discovered a sizable stash of marijuana where a corpse should have been resting in peace.
No longer a profitable commodity for the cartels to traffic in, Mexican brick weed has experienced a precipitous price drop as marijuana reform movements across North America have devalued one of Mexico’s oldest illicit exports. Currently valued at approximately $492 a pound ($33,000 divided by 67), legal weed in the U.S. and Canada has ultimately driven down the profitability of illegal pot and smuggling.
As legalization slowly takes root across North America, it might be time for Mexico’s marijuana smugglers to consider a new occupation.
credit:marijuana.com
