'Prescreened' driver suspected of trying to bring marijuana into U.S.

[Newsjock]

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Border Patrol agents arrested a man this week who was signed up for the Nexus program, an electronic pass program in which members submit to background checks in return for a speedier crossing at the border.

Despite that extra layer of security, the 41-year-old Lacey man was found with 4.4 pounds of what authorities said was high-grade marijuana in the cargo area of his 1999 Jeep Cherokee.

Officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the man tried to cross into the United States at 8:47 p.m. Sunday, pulling into the Nexus lane.

Spokesman Mike Milne said that special lane closes at 9 p.m. on Sunday.

Agents selected the man for an intense search, though Milne declined to say whether the man was caught up in a random screening or if something about the vehicle raised suspicions.

Read more: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/357431_border03.html

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Well...

Consider it this way: No one has ever successfully argued that weed makes you one bit smarter.

[angstlessk]

2. But if you are sicker than a dog due to chemo it WILL make you FEEL smarter

if not more well! or is that weller?

[Bonobo]

5. Actually...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6338173.stm

[Gman]

3. Smuggling marijuana from Canada??

Now that's a wierd one.

[JBoy]

4. I guess you've never heard of "BC bud"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_Bud

Marijuana is a huge underground industry in BC, and is said to now rival forestry as the biggest economic contributor to BC. It's certainly BC's largest cash crop. The recent decline in the US dollar has made exports to the US less competitive.

Something in the order of $6 Billion worth is exported to the US annually, which by my back of the rolling paper calculation would be about 6 million pounds. Or 680 pounds every hour, 24/7.

[High Plains]

6. Yeah, but the falling US dollar is killing the cross-border trade.

Be frugal and patriotic, smoke American.

[here_is_to_hope]

7. *snicker!* n/t

[Gman]

9. At least they're not killing each other in Canada

like they are across the border from us here in Texas.

[Gormy Cuss]

8. Pre-screened. Color me not surprised.

The next airplane hijackers will come from the pre-screened travelers too. It's a dumb idea designed to coax more people into sacrificing privacy for the illusion of security and the benefit of moving to the head of the line.