Dude, where's my stash?

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: AlienCraft

Originally posted by: blackangst1

Originally posted by: ericlp
Ommmm 5,525 lbs of dope? Well my guess it wasn't primo dried out bud. I highly doubt America smokes that much weed in a year.

Sounds to me they were using it to make baskets or hemp rope, cloths out of it .... I doubt it was high grade stony weed.

5,525 lbs is NOTHING

"Calculating the total amount of marijuana available in a given year based on the amount seized during that year necessarily provides only a rough estimate. If only 10 percent of illicit drugs are seized in any given year, then, based on the figure of 2,412,365 pounds of marijuana seized in 2002, one could estimate that in 2002 the total amount of marijuana that traffickers succeeded in smuggling into the country was roughly 24 million pounds, or about 10,889 metric tons. If one doubles that amount to take into account the domestic production of marijuana that was not seized, then the total amount would be closer to 22,000 metric tons"

2 and half MILLION pounds...and thats only what was siezed.

That is such bullshit. More hyperinflating of figures assumed to be correct.
This is the same Government that values a pound of weed based on gross sales if it were all ,seeds & stems too, rolled into joints and sold during the 'dry' months.
Having only ancedotal experience with growing it, I would imagine the area in land, amount of water and manpower to cultivate and maintain that crop would hardly defy detection. They could in fact see it from orbit.
I say BULLSHIT.

Prove it wrong then. Link fest!

 

[NaughtyGeek]

Found in a 2700 year old tomb, ie. someone important's grave, and we somehow can justify making it illegal. THAT'S the crime.

As to the original find, I shudder to think what could be done with the sale of not just this crop, but the thousands of others that we didn't stumble upon. Reason number 326 to legalize the crap and make it legit. Legit = taxable = mostly traceable = removal of shady elements = lower crime.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

no drug war in US = no drug crimes in the whole world

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
no drug war in US = no drug crimes in the whole world

Are you that ignorant? Where on earth are drugs legal other than small quantites of MJ in Dutch coffee shops, or religious ceremonies?

Drugs are illegal in most places. We are just stupid enough to waste our money enforcing it outside our borders (Spraying, etc)

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: blackangst1

Prove it wrong then. Link fest!

Ever hear of Hegel and his dialectic?
Thesis, anthesis & Synthesis?
I don't have to. The 'proof' is in their own statement.
When you start a statement based on an unproven or unsubstantiated claim, the burden of proof for that initial claim rests on whoever made it.
They are assuming that they are seizing only 10% of all MJ grown.
Then they extrapolate that into some ungodly number to make it appear that there is an absurd amount flowing, when there is no evidence to support that claim, only conjecture.
They lie to raise fears and raise funds.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

great but where is osama?

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: AlienCraft

Originally posted by: blackangst1

Prove it wrong then. Link fest!

Ever hear of Hegel and his dialectic?
Thesis, anthesis & Synthesis?
I don't have to. The 'proof' is in their own statement.
When you start a statement based on an unproven or unsubstantiated claim, the burden of proof for that initial claim rests on whoever made it.
They are assuming that they are seizing only 10% of all MJ grown.
Then they extrapolate that into some ungodly number to make it appear that there is an absurd amount flowing, when there is no evidence to support that claim, only conjecture.
They lie to raise fears and raise funds.

Youre spinning faster than Taz! Are you claiming the amounts seized is false? Because the amounts seized is FAR greater than 5,000 pounds.

More recent figures

During 2006, 1,115,710 kilograms of marijuana were seized along the Southwest Border. (Thats 2,454,562 pounds, JUST on the southern border)

A snapshot of JUST Arizona 2007

Border Patrol agents found 2,000 pounds of marijuana in two seizures Wednesday on the eastern section of the Tohono O'odham Reservation.

Customs and Border Protection officers at the Douglas Port of Entry seized 803 pounds of marijuana found hidden Wednesday in the walls of a tractor-trailer

Agents followed horse tracks that led them to 37 bundles of marijuana weighing more than 932 pounds hidden in the brush

second incident occurred Wednesday night on Federal Route 19 one mile north of the Arizona-Mexico border, he said. Agents found 51 bundles of marijuana weighing 1,075 pounds inside a 2005 Chevy truck

From Oct. 1 through Dec. 31(that would be 3 months), the latest figures released, Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector seized 216,734 pounds


Seems to me thats MUCH more than 5,000 pounds does it not? Your assessment = FAIL.

 

[wwswimming]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
What the hell? Why are we forcing our asinine "War on Drugs" on other countries? Are they going to load ICBMs with marijuana and use it to stone the populace of several major cities?

that's the Cheech & Chong version of Dr. Strangelove.

 

[dmcowen674]

Dave's not here