Border Patrol Using Drones to Battle Marijuana Trade

U.S. border patrol agents are using drones, the same type in fact being used to fight the Afghanistan war, to locate illegal shipments of marijuana being smuggled across the Southwest border.

But based on the government’s own statistics, it remains to be seen if the expense of unmanned aircraft can be justified to halt the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S.

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