http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20041124/lo_wews/2470113
Take any street price you want. In no way does 225 pounds of Marijuana = $10,000,000 millions dollars. Why do they continue to lie? Or maybe not, and Ohio has some really, really good weed? Inflating prices that don’t exist is not winning the war on drugs, please try again Mr. Officer.
Because they’re ethically bankrupt tough guys who have a strong need for exaggeration to make themselves look better to the people who don’t know the first thing about drugs? That’d be my guess.
I want to take $2833 per ounce. 
Funny, I’ve never heard of anyone being stopped for a lane violation. Must have had a tip.
I wonder who’s street estimate they are using – under the highest estimate for marijuana listed on the DEAs website 225 would only be worth about 1.4 million.
But then, a higher price makes the officers who made the arrest look better, and the reporters don’t look at the math to hard because it makes for a more exciting news story if the price is in the millions.
Let us say that high-grade pot is $200/oz. 225 lbs = 3600 oz = $720,000 - but only if it were to be sold an ounce at a time. This is not likely. You know, volume discounts, and like that.
There is some serious misreportage of figures going on here.
I guess police drug value estimates are as accurate as their crowd estimates. 
Let’s see – 102150 grams, sold individually, you’re looking at around 1.5 million bucks.
But this one time, the school liaison officer caught little Johnny Peckerwood, an eighth-grader at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, with a bag of weed that, according to the lab, was actually 93% oregano. Reevaluating the street price based on this new information, we see that our traffic stop was actually quite a haul.
Quoth Officer Cartman: “Ten Million Dollars! Respect my Authoritay!”
Seriously, I have a friend who was surprised to find that the little crop he had in his basement, which he was hoping to get about $15,000 for come harvest time, was actually worth a coupla cool million.
This is because the Green Team weighs the whole plants, wet, with stalks, leaves, and all, and the gross weight is what they nail you with. And according to the letter of the law, that’s right. Penalties are meted out depending on the amount of marijuana you’re in possession of. Nowhere in there does it define “marijuana” as the dried buds of the plant. Leaf? That’s marijuana, dude. Stalk? That’s marijuana, too. Root ball? It ain’t hops, buddy. More than half of that weight’s water that won’t be there after it’s cured? Suck it up.
Well, the really super high-grade one-hitter-quitter that comes out of the mountains in western NC can rup up around $350 per 1/4 ounce. That’s $1,500/oz. 225lbs = 3600oz = $5,400,000.
Still only about half of their estimate. This stuff must’ve been laced with platinum.
:smack: $1,400/oz. $5,040,000. Even closer to half their estimate.
That must be it – they’re taking the weight of everything (not the salable product) and multiplying that by the highest street price they ever heard of for just the dried buds.
Anyway, “We’re at war, dammit! No questions! That’s unpatriotic!”
Yeah, the report didn’t really say that what they found was dried, or whole plants. My guess is that is was dry, with intent to sell. But still, no way are 225 lbs worth of undried plants even worth $10 Million, unless they’re proven to be top grade, female counterparts. Even then, maybe 3 or 4 Million? But I won’t even get into that. I’m just tired of the ignorance, we’re still operating as if we’re in the 1920’s.
An ouce of pot found on the ground in the middle of a parking lot weighs one ounce. An ounce of pot found on a 225lb person walking to his car in the parking lot weighs 225lbs. An ounce of pot found on a person in a car parked in a parking lot weighs 6000lbs. The weight is multiplied by the adjusted street value to result in the value of the bust. The adjusted street value is based on the cost of recovering the pot from the police, and since that would be very expensive, the adjusted street value is very high. That is how pot with values greater than many nations’ GNPs is frequently recovered at house parties.
I’m not saying you’re wrong Muffin, but I’m curious as to where you’re getting that info. If so, they could use the weight of the highway, the soil, the sand, and the earth! Either way, if you’re right, the numbers are deceitful, and the method is improper.
Just pulled it out my ass, the same way some police pull their figures out of their asses.
They lie because they can get away with it. If the media had guts they would write articles making fun of this, and many other, lunacies.
The US media just doesn’t care about journalism anymore. Facts are no longer of any importance to reporting.
The media’s job isn’t to make fun, but they should point this out. If few outlets have done so, I imagine it’s because the media depends on the police for stories and if they piss them off, the police are less likely to cooperate with them. This sort of quid pro quo journalism doesn’t end up serving anybody’s interests, of course…
Moving this from IMHO to The BBQ Pit.
Anyone ever notice that the self-labeled Right and Left pretty much agree on the stupidity of the Wo(S)D?
That would be the “War on (Some) Drugs,” yes? I believe (no evidence, no cite, just my gut feel) that if there was a pot lobby with the clout of the booze & tobacco lobbies, we’d see some laws change damn fast.