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ChaosOne
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Police/Media reported prices on Drug Busts
#12704248 - 06/07/10 04:30 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Reading todays paper I came across an article of a drug bust in an underground bunker in rural NSW Australia.
They found 800 plants with an estimated value of $5.9Mil - do the math that works out to be $7,375 per plant.
How the fuck do they estimate these prices?
It is also very common to see the paper quoting prices for busts on pills of $8,000 for 200 pills...
Where do these people live - and how can i become a dealer there?
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Re: Police/Media reported prices on Drug Busts [Re: ChaosOne]
#12704275 - 06/07/10 04:35 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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I once figured out the per eighth price for a DEA bust of a pot shipment from Mexico (so I'm assuming it's brick weed). It was around 100lbs if memory serves, and the price they gave came out to about $200/eighth.
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Re: Police/Media reported prices on Drug Busts [Re: ChaosOne]
#12704354 - 06/07/10 04:49 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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It's a well known phenomena called 'cop math' - essentially they take it down to street level then go by the most expensive dime bag they ever heard about from some guy who knew a guy who worked vice in Saudi Arabia.
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Re: Police/Media reported prices on Drug Busts [Re: NizzyJones]
#12704517 - 06/07/10 05:21 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Logic - I know if I had 800 Plants I would be selling them off a dime bag at a time
Makes me laugh at the thought of Johnny Q Public sitting down to breakfast and reading the paper and actually thinking that is what the plantation is worth.
I have also heard that they value any seeds they find at $100 per seed - insane
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Re: Police/Media reported prices on Drug Busts [Re: ChaosOne]
#12704530 - 06/07/10 05:23 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
do the math that works out to be $7,375 per plant.
Big hydro plants can produce a lot of pot, definitely enough to be worth $7500.
Not if sold in bulk... but if sold in recreational amounts (oz, 1/2's, 1/4's).
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Re: Police/Media reported prices on Drug Busts [Re: Chubba]
#12704567 - 06/07/10 05:30 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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No way the plants are ever that big when you see them on the news
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Re: Police/Media reported prices on Drug Busts [Re: ChaosOne]
#12704769 - 06/07/10 06:06 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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i wonder if its worth the risk to sell drugs to undercover DEA agents with the huge profit margin and all
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Re: Police/Media reported prices on Drug Busts [Re: ChaosOne]
#12706002 - 06/07/10 09:54 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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ChaosOne said: Reading todays paper I came across an article of a drug bust in an underground bunker in rural NSW Australia.
They found 800 plants with an estimated value of $5.9Mil - do the math that works out to be $7,375 per plant.
How the fuck do they estimate these prices?
It is also very common to see the paper quoting prices for busts on pills of $8,000 for 200 pills...
Where do these people live - and how can i become a dealer there?
Whenever I hear of this sort of "news" I am reminded of a scene from the film "How to get ahead in advertising".
The chapter is titled: "The distortion of truth by association"
Here is an excerpt: ========================================== Businessman on Train: [reading a newspaper] I see the police have made another lightning raid. Priest on Train: I suppose young girls was involved? Businessman on Train: One found naked in the bathroom. "Breasts smeared with peanut butter. The police also found a bag containing 15 ounces of cannibus resin. The bag may also have contained a small quantity of heroin." Denis Dimbleby Bagley: Or a porkpie. The bag may also have contained a porkpie. Businessman on Train: I hardly see what a porkpie's got to do with it. Denis Dimbleby Bagley: Then how about a turnip? The bag may also have contained a large turnip. Priest on Train: The bag was full of drugs. It says so! Denis Dimbleby Bagley: It's the oldest trick in the book. Priest on Train: Book? What book? Denis Dimbleby Bagley: The distortion of truth by association book. You all believe heroin was in the bag because cannibus resin was in the bag, but the chances of it actually being there are certain 100 to 1. Businessman on Train: A lot more likely than what you say. Denis Dimbleby Bagley: About as likely as the tits smeared with peanut butter. Priest on Train: The tits were spread with peanut butter! It says so! Who's a man you are to think you know more about it than the press? Denis Dimbleby Bagley: I'm an expert on tits. Tits and peanut butter. I'm also an expert drug pusher. I've been pushing drugs for 20 years, and I can tell you a pusher always protects his pitch. We want to sell them cigarettes, and we don't like competition, see? So we associate a relatively innocuous drug with one that is more deadly, and the rags go along with it because they adore the dough from the ads! Businessman on Train: I'm getting off at Datchet. Denis Dimbleby Bagley: Getting off at Datchet won't help you. Getting off anywhere won't help you! I've had an octopus squatting on my brain for a fortnight, but now I see that only I can save you! It'd be pointless to go into reasons why, but I've been worried sick about boils for a fortnight! Big ones, small ones, fast eruptors, they're incurable all of them. I know that. Everybody knows that. Until they get one; then the rules suddenly change, but there's really nothing but hope of curing that. [Points to priest] Denis Dimbleby Bagley: He knows that, which is why he gets a good look-in with the dying. Sells them hope, see? But these boils would be fortide into real estate if anybody came up with a genuine cure for death! Priest on Train: Good God, this is a madman! Denis Dimbleby Bagley: What do you know about God, you wire-haired mick? ==========================================
This happens every day, in more ways that we could ever perceive...
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