In one location during the week of July 4, the DEA discovered hundreds of boxes of cucumbers that had been lined with several hundred pounds of meth, worth nearly $4 million. ????????2025  

And cartels are growingly increasingly creative in how they try to smuggle meth across the U.S.-Mexico border -- from hiding packages of meth pills among green onions to disguising meth shipments as loads of celery. ??????2025  

"They control production, the smuggling, the distribution in the United States, and obviously the actual collection of monies and getting the money back into Mexico," he said. ?????????????  

Murphy said that one of the most disturbing things about methamphetamine is that "Mexican cartels control 100% of it." ??????24  

The DEA has become so concerned about the continuing boom of methamphetamine use that it's planning to hold a press conference on Tuesday to draw attention to it. ????????2025