apropos of nothing
 

It seems I live in the Humboldt county of the N.E.
I was chatting the other day with our local gendarme about all the recent incessant helicopter activity. There was one lifestar event when some older gent repeatedly fell on his head, got up, fell, etc. Declaring he was fine. SPLAT. So they took him away.

Well, what about the rest of the helicopter activity?
There was a Mexican gentleman who, for reasons known only to him, decided it was prudent to run over the Trooper who had stopped him before dragging him a-ways with his truck.

Ok, sure. You definitely want to find him and give him a stern talking to.

But what else?

Well, there was the two tons of marijuana they found yesterday and the thousand plants they found this afternoon.

So there you have it. Potential tax revenue lost for ever.

I'm sorry about your marijuana, sn.

For ever government helicopter, add three news helicopters.

not mine. I stick with the legal stuff. :eek:

So I did a quick google to get the specifics and found a mess of upstate pot busts. It is approaching harvest... I see Missy Giove got nailed. She used to be a hell of a mtn bike racer. Her bust looks like a smuggling operation so she'll probably do serious time...

From the wikipedia entry about her:
The max penalty seems extreme for weed.

400 pounds seems extreme too.

We really need to decriminalize weed. Not the other stuff.

In Humboldt County this was probably about 0.1% of the actual crop.

Note that the weight "two tons" would result in a fraction of that weight in actual smokable material, after the rest of the plant is discarded and the water in the plant mostly dried out.

Yeh - they weigh the whole thing - shit when processed properly the total weight would be far less than 1/2 of that estimate. Didn't the Feds change that reporting when Reagan was in office to make the numbers look better or something.

LIke when they calculate the "street value" by figuring out how many pin joints you can roll out of a bale of weed.

zactly

Agree or not, weed is illegal most places.

Insanity we haz it.

I lost count, but for awhile I was on a Larry Niven bender, and I read probably a half-dozen books in a row that all had some reference, somewhere, to the fact that in his future setting, the marijuana was grown commercially and the tobacco had been made illegal.