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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
A cop once told me (and a whole classroom full of people) that they would "weigh the dirt" when they made this kind of bust. Take the plant, the dirt, even the container it was planted in, and put the whole works on the scale, then multiply that weight by whatever price Joe Longhair was paying for a single gram and that's how they came up with the 'street value'.y.
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Yeah, I've heard that too. They can't flat out lie about what they've recovered, but they can just weight it all. More weight, more predicted street value, more mind boggling and a bigger story when you get it in the papers.