This is by no means a record breaking haul for the Border Patrol: 85 pounds of grass worth about $42,500–peanuts in the larger drug war. But it is representative of the ever-shifting tactics used by smugglers to get their product to market on the U.S. side of the border. The recovered canisters of pot were believed to have been launched roughly 500 feet (agents also recovered a carbon dioxide tank, tipping them off to the pneumatic nature of this latest ballistic border-clearing method). That’s no small distance for cans of pot that had an average weight of around 2.5 pounds. AP
