350million dolors worth of cannabis was made in a 2 year period... a 7000 plant crop would get around 875 pounds(2 oz per plant) 5 crop outs a year, so around $2500 a oz, why do the gov and police love to inflate the price of cannabis so much?
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/8373932/drug-raids-not-influenced-by-election/
edit:link didn't post first time around.
Posted Nov 23, 2010, 6:18 AM UTC · edited
scores of properties allegedly linked to a $400 million cannabis-farms syndicate.
This is from the other article BTW
Police raided 68 properties early today, all allegedly connected to a cannabis cartel producing indoor hydroponic crops – each worth $80,000.
68 x $80,000 = $5.4mil
Police have seized more than 7200 cannabis plants.
$5.4mil / 7,200 = $755/plant. Sounds reasonable. They always use "street value", although I don't know if that is in ounces or grams or what.
yea the sums add up each plant would produce(if lucky looking at the size of them in the pic) 2 oz so thats around $380, the growers are not making that much tho. In the clip by seven news the reporter said that over the last 18 month to 2 years they have produced crops worth 350 million dolors worth.
also those "7,200" plants i doubt all were in flower, they love grouping in the 2week old clones in the final number to make it sound like a bigger bust
also police always weigh the whole plant as opposed to just the buds and often they'll weigh seized plants wet which increases the weight. They will then charge the perp with this inflated weight and equate that to a street value of buds sold in grams at 25 a pop. Good lawyers fix this up in court but its standard police practice to inflate the severity of the charge.
"Dollars" by the way. You've misspelled it every time ; )
This is whats wrong with reddit, the government is lying to us and people only care about correct spelling. Well done sir you would have made a great 8th grade English teacher.
people only care about correct spelling
Don't forget all the maths I corrected. While I'm at it the police are not the government.
edit: Seriously, who misspells "dollar"? It's all some people think about.
You didn't factor in the cost of running a war on drugs. Wars aren't cheap. </s>
Your calculations suck.....5 crops how? 4 if you have 2 rooms going....meaning only half the plants are flowering at a time.....so it's really closer to 2-3 crops a year from wo to go. I think they treat each plant as worth a lot more than two plants....which is entirely possible, especially if you look at future costs.
its takes around 8 weeks to flower so 5 harvest a year is easily manageable, by the way i said "crop out" its slang for harvesting a cannabis crop.
try 12-16.
well they were Asian so they prob did 6 a year, but 8 a year, thats a 6 1/2 weeks to flower and get the new crop in so i doubt it.
Or you think i takes 12-16 weeks to flower, in that case your still wrong, its an indoor hydro grow so they would be using a indica and most have a 7-9 week flower.
No, you have no idea what you are talking about. Long time smoker and grower here.
Google it.
Grow drugs.
Sell to police officers.
Profit!!!!
I admit I haven't dealt with Australian police much, but I thought it would have been: