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Makeshift marijuana cannon confiscated in Mexicali

Another homemade marijuana cannon has been seized near the Mexican border, this one able to launch packages weighing up to 30 pounds.
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This improvised marijuana cannon used compressed air from an old car engine to launch pot packages over the Mexicali border. (Credit: Mexicali Safety Department)
This improvised marijuana cannon used compressed air from an old car engine to launch pot packages over the Mexicali border. (Credit: Mexicali Safety Department)
Published: Feb. 28, 2013 at 8:10 AM
By KRISTEN BUTLER, UPI.com

Mexican police in Mexicali have recently "recovered a powerful improvised cannon used to hurl packets of marijuana across a border fence into California."

The cannon is "made up of a plastic pipe and a crude metal tank that used compressed air from the engine of an old car," and was able to launch packages stuffed with pot "that weighed as much as 30 pounds," according to police.

U.S. authorities have seen this type of air delivery system. In December of last year, authorities in Yuma, Arizona discovered dozens of canisters of marijuana weighing about two pounds each. They had been launched up to 500 feet by a similar pneumatic cannon rig.

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