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Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10
#5309924 - 02/17/06 09:55 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Found this on CNN today. They should just admit defeat and make pot legal.
SPOKANE, Washington (AP) -- Law enforcement officers harvested a dubious record last year -- enough marijuana plants to rank the illegal weed as Washington state's No. 8 agricultural commodity, edging out sweet cherries in value.
The 135,323 marijuana plants seized in 2005 were estimated to be worth $270 million -- a record amount that places the crop among the state's top 10 agricultural commodities, based on the most recent statistics available.
"We're struck by the amount of work they put into it," said Rich Wiley, who heads the Washington State Patrol narcotics program. "It's very labor intensive. They often run individual drip lines to each plant, and are out there fertilizing them."
The net results have a tremendous payoff to illegal growers, said Wiley, who coordinates pot busts with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and local law enforcement agencies. A single plant can produce as much as a pound of processed marijuana, worth an estimated $2,000, he said.
The estimated $270 million value of the plants seized in 2005 ranked just above sweet cherries, which were valued at $242 million in 2004, and just below the $329 million the state's nurseries and greenhouses produced. Apples are the state's No. 1 agricultural commodity, bringing $962.5 million in 2004.
This is the seventh year in a row that record numbers of marijuana plants have been seized and destroyed statewide, the State Patrol said. The state's known pot harvest, based on seizures, went from 66,521 plants in 2003 to 132,941 in 2004, then to 135,323 last year.
Most of the growing operations were in eastern Washington, principally outdoors on federal or state land in remote locations near a source of water, the State Patrol said.
In recent years, marijuana crops have been larger and more sophisticated than in the past, law enforcement spokesmen said.
Douglas County sheriff's Chief Criminal Deputy Robbin Wagg said while some "mom and pop" crops of 500 or fewer plants are still being found, most are larger and more sophisticated, with as many as 10,000 plants being irrigated and tended.
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: ymhrswrider]
#5309943 - 02/17/06 10:02 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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The government needs to stop bitching about how rich the criminals are getting.
Guess what, it's your fault marijuana is one of the nations largest cash crops.
It's also your fault that terrorists in third world countries make a killing selling opium/cocaine.
There is a HUGE demand for drugs in your nation, and you are letting criminals cash in on it? It's common sense 101 to just go ahead and start selling it to the people legally.........
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: leery11]
#5309977 - 02/17/06 10:15 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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great post.. couldent agree more.
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: ymhrswrider]
#5309995 - 02/17/06 10:23 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: ymhrswrider]
#5310035 - 02/17/06 10:44 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: ymhrswrider]
#5310037 - 02/17/06 10:44 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Shit, only the top 10?
In Ontario indoor weed is the 3rd biggest cash crop. The only things bigger are beef and dairy farming
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: ymhrswrider]
#5310038 - 02/17/06 10:45 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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they killed the plants?!
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: trendal]
#5310039 - 02/17/06 10:47 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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steak, milk, and marijuana. the three most important commodities in life! wheat? no. fruits and veggies? hell no.
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: leery11]
#5310053 - 02/17/06 10:56 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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that would be nice bringin in the cash for growin, but I mean if your growin big, you will probly eventually get busted. It always seems so anyway.
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: ymhrswrider]
#5310055 - 02/17/06 10:57 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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So it ranks in the top 10 based only on the plants they found?? Hot damn! Even if I didn't like pot I would demand it be legalized and regulated so all that money could go back into the system and help fund education or something useful.
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: ymhrswrider]
#5310659 - 02/17/06 02:23 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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ymhrswrider said: The 135,323 marijuana plants seized in 2005 were estimated to be worth $270 million -- a record amount that places the crop among the state's top 10 agricultural commodities, based on the most recent statistics available.
Just using those two numbers, that equals a little less than $2000 a plant. Can you get $2000 worth of bud from one plant? Are they figuring wholesale grower to dealer price or street dealer to consumer prices?
But that number only reflects that amount actually seized and inventoried by officials. If you count all the grows not found.... that number would be even more staggering! Higher than 8th place in WA state, I'd say. In most states where the weed is grown (ie, ALL of them....) it's usually the number 1 cash crop.
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: Gr8fulJ420]
#5311500 - 02/17/06 06:21 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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they probabaly mean what its street value is
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: ymhrswrider]
#5311626 - 02/17/06 06:56 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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ymhrswrider said: They should just admit defeat and make pot legal.
The fact that this much weed is being produced will only make them more steadfast in keeping it illegal. After all, if weed was legal there would be a hundred times this amount being produced. In their minds, that's a hundred times more little girls who try weed, drop out of school, get addicted to heroin and then start sucking dick in alleys to get it.
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: Learyfan]
#5311632 - 02/17/06 06:59 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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A hundred times zero is still zero.
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: PinballWizard]
#5311708 - 02/17/06 07:27 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Zero weed is being produced?
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Re: Illegal weed moves into state's produce top 10 [Re: Learyfan]
#5312178 - 02/17/06 10:05 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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I meant the part about the heroin sluts.
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