Man,
I live on the Border (tx - Mex), and I know that there are not huge a.s. shipments going across, because not one of these is ever in the paper being seized. Coke, heroin and allot of pot, but not any a.s. The only time I read about a.s. busts is when some dumb ass tries to walk across with to much gets busted and he ends up being associated with the local high school or college. If there were huge shipments of AS going across, then some of them would get caught, it is the law of averages. It just seems that the markup and the money is in the drugs, they are also easier to package, smuggle, and transport than a.s. I think that most of the a.s. that comes across the border is with guys like us that are bringing it across for themselves, and maybe a little extra to suppliment their income or pay for their cycle.
C-