Pharr-reynosa; The Gateway Of "delicious" Weed

[Farty McFly]

Enterprising Marijuana growers are getting creative in their attempts to import their goods to the US via the Pharr-Reynosa bridge in Texas.

"U.S. customs officials stationed along the Mexico border are accustomed to finding marijuana in unusual places. Inside the side door of an old van. In an unsuspecting tomato truck . Inside elaborate tunnels underneath the lengthy, 1,922-mile border separating the two countries.
And sometimes the would-be smuggled weed simply falls from the sky."

On January 10, 2016, border control agents seized nearly 2.5k pounds of pot disguised as carrots.

http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/01/14/fake-carrots-marijuana-mexico/46632/

Just five days later another 2.5k pounds were seized. This time they were disguised as limes.

http://www.thedailychronic.net/2016...arijuana-disguised-as-limes-seized-at-border/

These shipments are said to be worth over $500,000 each.

 

[DamagedGoods]

What a waste

 

[Keepalowprofile]

This is exactly why it should be legal in every state in the US.
There would be no need to have it smuggled here.
Cut the drug cartel right out of the loop.

 

[Satanica]

This is exactly why it should be legal in every state in the US.
There would be no need to have it smuggled here.
Cut the drug cartel right out of the loop.

Unfortunately, it's not just the cartels who are making money off of it, so it's pretty entrenched in our economy.

 

[everjaded]

Waiiiiiit a minute now. Did they just leave the weed exposed (well, only covered in clear wrap) to make the little green carrot tops?

That's fucking hilarious to me. Attention to detail like that is a real stoner gem.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

Unfortunately, it's not just the cartels who are making money off of it, so it's pretty entrenched in our economy.

I agree on that.
But a lot of resources are wasted looking at tiny grows when they need to concentrate on the illegal grows happening on state land, damaging our natural resources. 9 out of 10 illegal busts are illegal aliens. They don't have respect for our land/country/water etc. nor do they think twice about shooting anyone threatening their grow.

I grew this past year, The helicopters spent a lot of time flying over my 150 sqft. plot checking to see if my plants were staying with in the square footage.