A small article buried on Page 2B of today's Northwest Herald announced another marijuana bust with no arrests. A field of about 100 plants was found in Chemung Township.
Plants were 6-8 feet tall and well-cultivated. Street value of $100,000? Is a marijuana plant worth $1,000? Really?
This is not the first unattended field to be found. What I wonder is, why did they identify it instead of laying low and catching the growers? If the field was "well-cultivated", then it had not been abandoned. Wouldn't it be reasonable to expect the growers to return in fairly short order?
Sure, somebody is going to be irritated that his field was found. The growers are likely just that - low-paid tenders and not the bosses.
I'm ready to read that, when a field is identified, somebody has been caught! Now that would be news!
Editor's note: The estimated street value of a plant was initially calculated incorrectly by me at $100. A $100,000 value of 100 plants is obviously $1,000 each, not $100. The corrected was noted after the comment of DownByTheRiver was published.
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$100 a plant?!! Hardly!
Each “well-cultivated” plant produces 2-3 pounds. Going with two pounds, which is comprised of 32 ounces, whose street value = $100 per quarter ounce, = a “street value” of $12,800 per plant. Perhaps it’s even “higher” (LOL) now – I wouldn’t know now, for more than 10 years running, at this point.
Sigh!
Granted, just like at Aldi’s – the bigger your buy of Chef Boyardee Ravioli, your unit cost drops substantially, but still……
This all Prohibition, redux…. And just 1 month from now, we’ll have to look at California’s Proposition on the ballot to decriminalize pot. All “official” sources express anger and amazement at the ongoing killing spree along the Mexican Border, yet when the equivalent of a tomato or pepper plant, or a head of lettuce or cabbage can retail for close to $13,000, what can you expect to happen? Pot’s high cost is a result of current Federal and State laws.
Pot consumption is hardly any sort of extreme danger to society. It’s akin to a beer buzz. Enter “Big Beer” as an official lobbyist against decriminalization in this current Californian scrum. The California Beer & Beverage Distributors is spending money in the state to oppose a marijuana legalization proposition on the ballot in November, according to records filed with the California Secretary of State.
If the beer distributors are aligned against this Proposition, it tells you all you need to know about where pot is situated in terms of it’s inebriative effect. If you have no portfolio against a beer buzz, why be worried about pot?
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