Pot Grow-Op found in Mall of America-Florida

[schnee]

News link

"DEA agents found a hydroponics lab with more than 200 marijuana plants, standing 3 to 6 feet tall in the air and worth millions of dollars, in a storage area on the second floor of the mall."

[GoinAllTheWay]

Well I would say well done, hidden in plain sight but I guess that would depend on how long it was running for.

Ballzee to say the least.

[RougeUnderoos]

200 marijuana plants worth millions of dollars?

They must have been wearing diamond rings.

[LChoy]

Now that's a Mall with everything...

[BlackArcher101]

Edmonton loses another race.... I was expecting it to be WestEd first.

[Kipper is King]

Originally Posted by BlackArcher101

Edmonton loses another race.... I was expecting it to be WestEd first.

You're expecting Edmontonians to be able to figure out plumbing for hydroponics? Fat chance!

[Flames_Gimp]

haha awesome

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by Kipper is King

You're expecting Edmontonians to be able to figure out plumbing for hydroponics? Fat chance!

I figured the constant drip from the leaky roof would make that unnecessary.

[Kipper is King]

Originally Posted by BlackArcher101

I figured the constant drip from the leaky roof would make that unnecessary.

Touche!

[Smoldering_Puckster]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

200 marijuana plants worth millions of dollars?

They must have been wearing diamond rings.

That was my thought exactly. "Those things must be budding diamonds instead of buds".

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by Smoldering_Puckster

That was my thought exactly. "Those things must be budding diamonds instead of buds".

Weed in the US is WAY more expensive than in Canada.

[jydk]

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[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

Weed in the US is WAY more expensive than in Canada.

Maybe, but the way this story has it, every plant is worth at least 10 grand, and that just can't be true.

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'.

I think someone weighed the dirt in this story.

[Smoldering_Puckster]

Originally Posted by jydk

You know what, it sounds ridiculous but when you do the math it makes sense. Millions probably means ~2 million, divided by 200 plants thats ~ $10,000/plant, Its high, but looking at it using final street prices, maybe $25/ gram, 450 grams per plant equals over 2 million!



I wouldn't say WAY more, more yes, not WAY more!

If you are talking $25/g then you are talking 2.5x-3x more than what I am used to seeing it for. That's definately WAY more in my books.

[jydk]

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[Smoldering_Puckster]

Originally Posted by jydk

Well good on you for getting cheap dope, I'm not a smoker but I do know that weed can go for $20-25/gram at times here, so when the DEA releases information they use the highest going rate to make their discovery seem all that much better and to get more attention.



Makes sense too!

Where is "here" for you?

[jydk]

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[missdpuck]

Florida strikes again!!!! Yeeehaw.....!!!!!

[MrMastodonFarm]

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.

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.

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Maybe, but the way this story has it, every plant is worth at least 10 grand, and that just can't be true.

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'.

I think someone weighed the dirt in this story.

There is no dirt in hydroponic growing.

Clearly they have over valued this though...unless each plant was yielding some ungodly amount of weed, but that's the norm for police departments. Makes it sound bigger than it is...though I gotta say 200 plants in a mall is pretty ballsy.