And Now: The Marijuana Cannon
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Friday, March 1, 2013
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First it was the drug catapult, and then the adapted t-shirt cannon.
Now: ‘Marijuana cannon’ fires pot across border fence:
The makeshift cannon was made of plastic pipe and powered by compressed air sourced from an old car engine, police in the border city of Mexicali said. The device was able to fire cylinders packed with up to 30 pounds of pot.
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According to NBC, an investigation of the area "determined that the cans were fired from about 500 feet away with a pneumatic-powered cannon" and that a "carbon-dioxide tank was found nearby."
Demand brings product to market, yo.
About Steven L. Taylor
Next up … drone delivery. :)
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Reefer chuck’n!
I can’t wait until it’s shown on Discovery Channel.
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Tunnels under the border from TJ to San Diego are better but have the disadvantage of being fixed in place.
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Artillery to launch Reefer…Madness!
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@Rick DeMent:
You might think you’re joking about drug drones…
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Twenty-five years ago that headline would have had me reaching for a Zippo and cranking up Pink Floyd. Sigh.
The ingenuity of markets truly is astonishing. Whether medical devices, routers and servers or, yes, pot cannons. Makes me proud to be a ruthless capitalist.
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@mattb:
Not at all I used to wonder why radio controlled airplanes were not employed in the past, not exactly a new technology. Of course the use of pot drones may be with us now we just don’t know about it.
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I didn’t know when I was making potato cannons for the kids that I was learning a new skill set.
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@Rick DeMent: Smart phones, paypal, drones, GPS…. Are little parachutes of stash delivered on demand to your home far behind?
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@Rick DeMent: High-end RC airplanes could be used for all sorts of stuff (like terrorist attacks), I’m surprised they haven’t been used more.
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I’ll take three.
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we can put them out of business with our own home-grown stuff. save a few bucks on dea patrols down there.
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@bill:
Careful Bill, you’re getting dangerously close to suggesting that the War On Drugs isn’t working.
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@Rick DeMent & @Scott:
We’ll there’s already the “Burrito Bomber” drone:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/12/21/burrito-bomber-starts-the-drone-delivered-mexican-food
What would we name a pot drone? The “Doobie Dropper”?
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@matt bernius: Weed wafter? Blunt blimp?
TGIF
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@Tsar Nicholas
ewww a zippo.
Anyone who has ever tried to smoke out of a pipe with a zippo will know what is wrong with your statement.
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Well, the ATF has already proposed new regulations for the restriction of use of Pot Cannons. Predictably the NRA has a bevy of lobbyists working behind the scenes to pressure redstate lawmakers to cut ATF funding, and they have new grassroots ad campaign ready to go.
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Yet another unforeseen consequence of the failed marijuana prohibition. We need to END this stupid stuff and legalize marijuana like beer and wine!
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