I knew some fellows in high school who found a bale of pot while fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. They were the most popular guys in school, and not because of the grouper fillets either…

Talk about your Keynesian stimulus, dude, if the government would just legalize pot, it would put a dent in the Mexican cartels and spawn a mom and pop smoke shop boom here in the US the likes of which have never been seen…

It’s been interesting watching the evolution of the medical pot business here in CO.  The people approved it state-wide by a significant margin, and since that time the peck-sniffs at the local government level have contrived to regulate/eliminate it at the state, county, and city level.  So, some parts of the state are dry, some have enhanced rules re: location & density of stores, and the state has a whole new department with enforcers who visit shops and bust them for things like every worker not having the required name tag. 

In every session of the state legislature, reps from the fundy part of the state (here’s looking at you, CO Springs!) keep trying to tighten the noose.  Basically they’re taking the same approach that they’ve used to restrict abortion rights - just keep eating away at the edges until the whole elephant is gone, or at least seriously disabled.  The regs have become so onerous that many shops closed, so mission accomplished, with more of the same to come. 

The good news is the shop owners are well-organized and apparently have the $ to keep lobbying and fighting back with lawyers.  IMHO, you shouldn’t need a prescription to light up, anymore than you need one now to get a beer or a cigarette.

Alternatives:

1. Radio-controlled balloons with GPS, at night.

2. Tiny drone airborne VW buses.

3. Jet-assisted gazorch.

I hesitate to offer unpaid consultancy to the likes of Bachmann, but I suppose a vast bank of strategically angled trampolines arrayed along the US side might do the trick.

Either that, or some truly monstrous skins and a horde of willing volunteers.

Remember Janet Napolitano’s quote?

“You show me a 50-foot wall and I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder at the border. That’s the way the border works,” Napolitano said.

I wonder if she considered Hail Mary passes?

The drug cartels could increase business geometrically by sailing an armada of football sized dope dirigibles northward, complete with smoking instructions, a calling card and a pre-paid cellphone.

A three-month onslaught of free-dope-from-the-skies would be a more powerful sell than the Marlborough Man.

Someone alert Tbogg - I think we may have found a job for Tim Tebow.

Hey, am I driving okay?

“So they have resorted to using catapult-type contraptions and basically launch the marijuana bundles over the fence.”

Far out, man. Now if I could only get Wendy’s to catapult me a cheeseburger….

“They are quarterbacking them (the bundles) over the fence and hoping the receivers are in the right spot to pick them up,”

Those are some really dumb-ass smugglers if they aren’t coordinating time and place for the Hail Marys. Cell phones with GPS work in Mexico, too.

I heard they were taking babies out of incubators in Kuwait and throwing them over the wall like footballs.

My not-nearly-as-politically-engaged-but-definitely-a-liberal husband loved this story when I told it to him.  As a high tech guy, what really got his giggle going was that a technology evolved in the Middle Ages for castle siege warfare is now out-thinking the border wall (e.g., Tejas’s Maginot line).  History, rhyming, etc, some assembly required, but not much.