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Philadelphia Police Say Marijuana Costs $100 Per Joint

Tue, Jan 15, 2008 11:24 am

Exaggerating the value of drug seizures is an age-old tactic in the drug war. Fuzzy math can turn a routine bust into a career-making front page news story, so it's no surprise that narcotics officers frequently miscalculate the value of their scores. But when a major paper like The Philadelphia Inquirer inadvertently values marijuana at $100 per joint, you know things have gotten out of hand:

Today, police laid out 16 pounds of the stuff they said they confiscated from a high-level dealer who supplied the suburbs…

Police put the value of the marijuana at $812,000. On Tuesday, as the probe continued, investigators seized 12 pounds of hallucinogenic mushrooms worth $614,000 and more than $439,000 in cash, police said. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

Really?!? Let's do the math. $812,000 / 16 pounds / 16 ounces / 28.3 grams = $112.08 per gram. That's a hearty marijuana joint for $112. The same formula finds them valuing the mushrooms at a whopping, and oddly similar, $113 per gram.

Just look at High Times Magazine's Market Quotes for marijuana to see that the highest street prices come nowhere close to these wildly false numbers. A gram of the very best pot can fetch $25-30, usually less. It is literally as though they calculated the value of the seizure and added a zero at the end (actually that's currently my best guess as to what happened here).

This is what we get when reporters simply pass along claims from police regarding drugs. Law-enforcement's lack of expertise on certain drug-related matters, combined with their incentive to exaggerate their own achievements, creates an obvious imperative that the press seek to substantiate such claims before offering them to the public.

This announcement from The Philadelphia Inquirer that marijuana costs $100 per joint is just a perfect example of the media's ongoing failure to provide responsible coverage of the war on drugs.

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RoDizzle

Aug 28 2009, 11:12 am

Yo..I live in philly...And I can tell you for sure these morons bump their drug bust totals astronomically up. The marajuana in this city does not cost that much. Especially to the people they are busting. To the common civillian a gram is still 5 bucks for swag(though the counts have shrunk considerably over the years) and Kindbud and other exotic types range from 15-25 dollars per gram. It appears they need to either higher a new accountant, or start employing stoners so they can accurately pin-point the busts total economic wealth...Cause 16 pounds would come no where near $812,000...not even for Kindbud... A pound should range anywhere from $1,000- $1,400....and I believe K.B. tends to go for $375 a quarter pound....Where these guys get these prices I do not know. I guess everyone on the philadelphia police force has never bought a bag of weed and smoked a joint...Which I find very hard to believe..Especially while living in this city.

???

Dec 31 2008, 6:59 am

all of yall r some pot heads

karen21550

Dec 30 2008, 8:55 pm

if philly sells a joint for $100.00.im definately living in the wrong place for selling.its sooo cheap here that its not worth getting caught for.

Dallas

Dec 30 2008, 7:25 pm

Fuck the police.

lol

Dec 30 2008, 3:57 pm

and by the way ANONYMOUS....it does come out to $111.89 a gram
there are about 7257 grams in a pound if you divide that by 812000 you get 111.891966. we know our Herb.

lol

Dec 30 2008, 3:50 pm

lol the first comment on here is trying to tell the biggest mass of stoners how selling weed works =P

anonymous

Dec 17 2008, 4:05 pm

Are all of you guys retarded or something? When valuing the busts they break the amount down into the smallest increment that is usually sold. Dont any of you guys know you make more money by selling weed in the smallest quantity possible. So 16 pounds broken down into grams and sold at $20/g is $812,000.

Smokey Mcpot

Nov 21 2008, 1:57 pm

Regardless of the drug war ,and the bullshit they sling every damn time they make a bust. It doesn't mean they are winning. lol. We are winning , because regardless of the law we still choose to put what we want into our bodies. I love America. :D Reefer and Beer...

John

Sep 30 2008, 12:30 pm

is just a police give im a chance:Phaha

Richard Schimelfenig

Jan 23 2008, 11:25 am

Most of the time, when I write to reporters for the Inquirer or the News Journal (in DEAlaware) I get some kind of response. I am sought out as a local source to comment on cananbis stories by the newspapers, and even PBS and several radio stations.

But, I almost never get a response when I call them on some bit of stupidity. This is one of those cases. I've heard nothing from the reporter.

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On another note, to whoever it is that keep saying to use a ctrl key combo to copy and paste. Copying is not a problem. I can copy from any source, even the comment edit page.

However, any time any ctrl key is pressed (I tried this on three other PC's as well as an Apple) a window pops up imediately on hitting ctrl (or the Apple key) saying "Ctrl key pressed!" and there it sits, doing absolutely nothing else until that window is closed. One never gets to the "v" to complete pasting.

This is NOT a problem with anyone's computer. It is a problem with how the style sheet os implimented.

I accept that this is not a "conspiracy". It's just bad programming, if it is not supposed to be there.

I have an idea

Jan 21 2008, 2:20 am

lets change the street price right now, we are all making it up anyway, right? so lets change it, right now a dime (a gram or so) of "regular" costs $10, and "kindbud" or better costs $20, but what if we made it, say... $5 a dime of anything less than kindbud bud or $10 for a double dime 2.5 or better, and make kindbud $10 a dime, lately it seems that just because its good bud people are charging an extra $10 per gram, even on big bags, which makes bags wicked expensive, it's literally double the price, when most of the time its nowhere near double as strong and thats not fair, we need to bring prices down, lets do it, any other price suggestions are welcome, lets spread the word that weed will be cheap again! not too cheap, we still want hard working growers to make enough money to be happy, but still, it should be reasonably cheaper, if i grew id definetly lower my prices to affordable levels, hell bags would be flying off the shelves. anyway i think its a great idea, even if im stoned, so lets really consider it, please, it would be awesome, think about it, lets bring prices back down.

Banana Jane

Jan 19 2008, 9:11 am

Sillys! It is because of the war on drugs that prices have risen so dramaticly...I guess since I last bought on Sunday...

The way I figgure it...if the war on drugs is effective, then there are less drugs available. If there are less drugs available, then the price goes up. If the war on drugs wern't effective, I would still be paying the same price a bag as I did ten years ago.

Wait, now I get a discount for buying in bulk. Yay America!!!!

LovesToSmoke

Jan 18 2008, 9:35 am

Ok, first, thanks for all the opinions. I do know how to copy and paste, I've been in desktop publishing for years and am well versed in useing a computer. As I said, there is nothing wrong with my computer, c & p works fine everywhere else, including other HT forms. This is the ONLY place it does not work. I understand now why HT disabled it (multiple, off topic posts that rendered the blog useless to those who wanted to use it for it's stated purpose - thanks 'Copy & Paste')and drag and drop works fine. Problem solved. Thanks again for all of you willing to help and my apologies to HT for the accusation.

I'm sorry...

Jan 17 2008, 1:48 pm

Not "control." Hit "command" aka "open apple" and C to copy, "open apple" and V to paste.

That should work...

You wrote

Jan 17 2008, 1:44 pm

you're hitting "control click c" don't click. Just highlight, hit control and c. Then, hit control v in the comment field. If it's not working something is wrong with your computer.

drummer4life

Jan 17 2008, 1:34 pm

you would think that if a joint cost that much, then why would,nt their greedy asses not tring to make the money themselves.we can take money for war,but we won,t make money on good weed.again thats why Im voting for Obama a real new face,

LovesToSmoke

Jan 17 2008, 12:39 pm

To: Copy & Paste
I did that. Re-read what I wrote.

Copy & Paste

Jan 17 2008, 11:21 am

has not been disabled and it's not a conspiracy.

LovesToSmoke, you don't need to right click. Just highlight text, hit "Control" + "C" then click in the comment field and hit "Control" + "V"

To Richard

Jan 17 2008, 8:28 am

"i wish I could tell you to keep toking but that would jeapordize your job "

I'm pretty sure he knows that already . Anybody waiting for advice from you to make their CHOICE has a problem anyway . And it is a CHOICE .
I also wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a reporter to acknowledge to you , that he needs to pay attention . Most likely , he is saying "who is this dumbass and why does he feel I owe him anything ." I'm sure you are somebody somewhere .

Richard Schimelfenig

Jan 17 2008, 2:00 am

Akron, my heart is broken that you are being tortured in this way. That is what they are doing to you. It is just like when the cop smashed a toe off my left foor and broke the rest of the toes, only more painful, more damaging, slow motion so you can steep in it torture.

IF you are a regular toker, it could be weeks before you can give anything approaching a "clean" urine. Are they going to wait that long? And you have to live in fear that one day you know they are going to test you again, without warning. That's sheer torture.

I know you like the job, and more importantly with your family, you absolutely need it. I can't agree that they are great people to work for, or they would not be torturing you with such a pissant "offer".

I used to suggest that fellow tokers just not take the piss tests. Better to be able to explain that you were fired because you refused to give up your rights than that you got fired for having illegal drugs in your urine.

Now, I'm not so sure that not testing is always a legitimate choice.

Having a wife who is recovering (we agreed years ago that I could talk freely about it, in order to help others), I understand the further pressure on your life from the drink. Please don't start drinking again.

I wish I could tell you to keep toking, but that would jeopardize your job.

Pperhaps you might think of looking for other work. It is not too hard to find decent jobs that do not piss test. Many Fortune 500 companies have stoppped testing because they realized that they were losing the best and brightest to a retarded policy.

I have not heard back from the reporter. I know he read the email, as I got the confirmation of delivery and receipt upon read return. I don't believe the newspaper made an error, other than totally accepting everything the piggies said without question.

Vote for Ron!

Jan 16 2008, 9:31 pm

Please fellow stoners. Do NOT get too high on the day of your states primary where you can't get out and vote for Ron Paul. Our problem is bitching too much and not doing anything about it

To ?

Jan 16 2008, 9:22 pm

I know most people on here believe Marijuana should be legal, but sometimes you get idiots on here who talk crap and think Marijuana smokers are lazy non-productive.
Those are the people I was talking to.
"Grow your own"

Jan 16 2008, 8:18 pm

i live right outside philly, and phillys no different than the rest of the world and the rest of its people. cops have always been bullshit, where everyones out to milk themselves. the day you see me roll a 112 dollar joint, is the day you see me pack up a 112 dollar bowl pack.

1000000000000000000000000

Jan 16 2008, 7:49 pm

wow a 100 a joint ,shows how the elite have dumed down american cops,why is it wrong to smoke or grow your own,yet they will give you drugs that can cause migrans,all the way to anul sepage.hahahaha i will take the joint over there drugs anyday..

Jan 16 2008, 5:23 pm

"For all those who read this , and feel marijuana should remain illegal"

I don't think anyone here thinks it should be illegal .

To Mr.Schimelfenig...

Jan 16 2008, 5:10 pm

I live in Akron, Ohio and I also feel a compelling need to do something about these STUPID Marijuana laws.
I recently had to take a (witch hunt) random pi$$ test at a job I've been at for 4 going on 5 yrs.
I had a + result. I told the company that I work for that I wasn't going to stop smoking and thats that.
Well they really are great people to work for and cut me a deal, I just have to give them 2-3 clean urines and they will be off my back until another random or an accident causes me to go again.
The thing is this, I have a wife and 2 small kids who depend on me for support.
I was ready to risk it all to stand up for my rights.
I am a former heavy drinker who's life was in shambles (as a drinker) now I'm doing better then ever before. When will this government open it's eyes and relize when they take jobs from honest, hard working folks they are destroying lives and creating criminals?
I don't know what I would have done if they would of told me I was fired,but I did know this, it would of been something that would receive media attention, (nothing violent) I'm not that kind of person.
I wouldn't go shoot up the place or anything like that,just something so people will know what happened and how Marijuana Prohibition is destroying lives..Thanks to all who took the time to read this.
AND
For those who read this, and feel Marijuana should remain illegal, do me a favor please,
show me how Marijana is more dangerous (quite the oppsite really) then alcohol. I would
love to read some answers.
So come on all you haters lets hear it...

Gab

Jan 16 2008, 4:25 pm

Its probably just the newspaper who accidently added an extra 0. Its fairly common for newspapers to have mistakes in them especially simple typos like an extra 0.

at 100 bucks a joint I don't think i'd smoke weed.

Green Hit

Jan 16 2008, 3:35 pm

We need to send a strong message. Perhaps we should mail weapons-grade peanuts.

LovesToSmoke

Jan 16 2008, 2:55 pm

Mr. Schimelfenig:

I posted this once before, and got laughed at and since I’ve already got my foot in my mouth I figured, people can only laugh just so hard. I think it’s a good idea and I think it will work, I hope you do too. I don’t have the connections or voice to get it started. If it could be announced, with conviction, to a large enough audience it will take a on a life of it’s own! Isn’t it time we did something besides acquiesces to their rules and play the voting game sham? It’s peaceful, it’s legal and there is not a damn thing they can do about it or, once started, stop, without an ending prohibition first!

Do you remember last years TV show, Jericho that was about to be cancelled? The fans got it renewed by bombarding those who cancelled it with peanuts, after the last line of last seasons show. What if we mailed millions of bags of peanuts to the white house? Lets freak out some politicians!

Here are the rules:

1) Make the 'return' address the same as the 'send to' address. This forces them to deliver because they can't return the package to it's origin. If the white house refuses to accept the peanuts, the post office must contend with it. Which means the white house has to deal with it anyway.

2) Make the package half a pound, no more than one pound. We want lots of packages, not one big one!

3) Write in big letters 'END MJ PROHIBITION!' on the package.

4) Use ONLY the US postal service. Bringing the postal system to a grinding halt will help make the point! No point punishing UPS and the like.

5) Write letters to the editor, pass among friends, and make news with vast amounts of peanuts, whatever we can do to get people mailing peanuts.

6) Ignore any protests of how terrorists can make use of it. Politicians have been ignoring us without concern for our safety. If they force us to live in fear, them let them join us at the table and share in the meal they prepared!

Any ideas you can add?

LovesToSmoke

Jan 16 2008, 2:26 pm

Hey Mr. S. My apologies. I humbly take my shame and laugh at myself with all.

Richard Schimelfenig

Jan 16 2008, 1:57 pm

Let them bring it on. I am more than ready for the sorry assed idiot cops bullshit. I am prepared to go to jail, and make as big a public stink about it as possible.

Steve Kubby, ran as Libertarian candidate for Gov of CA. Very public about his cannabis consumption. Fled to Canada when the piggies went after him and Michelle Rainey.

Sister Somailla (dang, I have to check the spelling of that) is a co-complainant and medical marijuana researcher specializing in lupus and cancer research in CA. I think she spent some time in jail for it.

Todd McCormick - already spent time in jail. He wrote a book on growing medical grade cannabis.

I am in an advertisement in HT for being a sponsor of the Mayday Marijuana March. I posted some of my other credentials.

BTW, about ten years ago, when cops tried to bust me for pot and ran up against my intellect, realizing they had no bust, decided to assault me. They threw me on the floor and jumped up and down on my back. As a result, I have so many protruding disks and other damage that I am in constant pain, except when I can toke up.

Fuck the police. What's the worst they can do? Kill me? attack me again? Instant martyr. Fuck the police. In my entire life, I've only met a small handful of cops who were not worth the dirt they were standing on. Fuck the police.

Richard Schimelfenig

Jan 16 2008, 1:33 pm

part 2:

Even more irresponsible is accepting what police say about teens in emergency rooms. The statement is not supported by a fact check of hospital admissions. It also ignores that there is no such thing as a marijuana overdose. Someone having a bad reaction is not an overdose, except in the minds of law enforcement, who have a vested interest in exaggeration and lying.

I don’t really expect a reasoned response, let alone a correction to the article. Just be aware that you make yourself a public example of drug war stupidity when you parrot police fantasy without question. Although a correction would be a nice step toward correcting drug war idiocy.

http://www.hightimes.com/ht/news/content.php?bid=1549&aid=24&rnd=38#cmnt

High Times, which is read all over the world, has a much higher rate of publication than the Philly Inquirer. You’ve just made a complete world wide ass of yourself and you are being ridiculed world wide for your apparent stupidity. Count yourself as extremely lucky that the Inquirer does not attach a comment section to the stories, as do other reputable newspapers. You’d be getting torn to shreds right now. I guess that explains the lack of a public comment section.

Richard Schimelfenig

Jan 16 2008, 1:32 pm

Email I just sent the reporter: part 1

I am the president of the Delaware Cannabis Society, and have been since 1968. I am one of the patients in the Class Action Lawsuit for patient protection languishing in the Federal District Court, and I am also featured in the book by Joan Bellow, the Benefits of Marijuana (Richard S. from Delaware). Perhaps that lends a little credibility to what I have to say on matters regarding cannabis.

I just read your story, Police seize high-potency marijuana, arrest 2 men.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/news_breaking/20071128_Police_seize_high-potency_marijuana__arrest_2_men.html

Where is your head and where are your fact checkers?

You said, ”police laid out 16 pounds of the stuff” as well as, ”the value of the marijuana at $812,000” . Since you wrote that without pointing out that that makes the street value of a single joint $112 per gram, and High Times Magazine has a market report on Philly putting the price of AK47 or even indoor hydro that can be even more powerful, at a street value of about $25 to $30 per gram at the highest, I have to ask why you published the police report without questioning their highly inflated valuation?

The fact that you also write that, "He wasn't selling this stuff on the street level. People would come and buy pretty large amounts of marijuana." only makes the statement about the price even more ridiculous, since it is clear that none of those buyers would be paying anything like $112 a joint.

Your failure to do simple fact checking, and point out the difference between police fantasy and street reality and actively participating in the obfuscation is a clear demonstration that you lack credibility. It paints you as both a semi-literate reporter and as irresponsible. That does not even begin to address that a responsible reporter would point out that without prohibition law, the criminal profit would simply not exist.

Yo - LTS

Jan 16 2008, 1:27 pm

He isn't dropping names - those names he dropped are of activists who are already out of the closet and in the front lines of this drug war - fighting to make things easier for all the tokers who are still stuck in the closet.

LovesToSmoke

Jan 16 2008, 1:22 pm

OK, !!, I'll buy that. My apologies to HT. I understand now.

Hey Rich, what are YOU smoking???? Why would you post full names? After 50 years you are inviting it? I don't think so! I guess you must be the evil bitch who hates the real Rich and his friends so much that you would bring this hell into their world? I'm gussing that they must be right about you, any insane bitch who would do such a thing deserves to be broken up with. Stop crying and start apologizing, be nicer a people will stay with you longer.

Green Hit

Jan 16 2008, 1:15 pm

Golly, this must mean that the police are a bunch of lying SOB's. What a revelation!

Richard Schimelfenig

Jan 16 2008, 1:02 pm

Sorry for the dual post. I just wanted to say, I would not be so certain that cannabis consuption does not cure some kinds of cancer. I know a guy named Steve Kubby, another named Todd McCormick and a woman Sister Somailla (sp?) who might take a different opinion.

There is eveidence that cannabis consupmtion stops cell appoptosis in some cases, which is a necesary step in cancer becoming established.

Try doing some reading before you have an opinion. Otherwise, your opinion is equal to the logs that come out of that dark, stinky place everyone has, and makes you one, too.

Richard Schimelfenig

Jan 16 2008, 12:56 pm

Having been a reporter for CNN, I have to wonder what kind of retards news outlets hire these days. Not just the retarded reporters, but where are the fact checkers?

As for the f-tards who take joy in the imprisonment of people for smoking a joint: Dudes, what the hell are you smoking? I've been smoking cannabis for fifty years, and I've never spent a single day in jail. Not that the piggies have not tried, but since they are all retards like you...

Hempman says: Know the Law, Konw Your Rights, Just Say NO to ILLEGAL SEARCHES!!

Jan 16 2008, 12:27 pm

copy/paste has been disabled b/c too many fuctards paste religious crap over and over and over - when there used to be a cut/paste feature these comments were almost useless.

LovesToSmoke

Jan 16 2008, 12:09 pm

I can't right click, nothing happens. If I try to CTRL click C or V I get a window that states that I have pressed the CTRL key. This is the ONLY field that does this. None other, not anywhere on HT's site or any site period. I can't believe I'm the only one.

I cut and paste

Jan 16 2008, 12:04 pm

into the comment box all the time. What's the matter with you?

LovesToSmoke

Jan 16 2008, 10:25 am

Well, that works! Here, I’ve been trying to cut from Word and paste into the submission window. Never tried drag and drop. I stated that not being able to cut and paste is deliberate on the part of HT. If drag and drop suddenly does not work, we will know for a certainty that it is true!

RedWolf in Colorado

Jan 16 2008, 10:02 am

I type my posts in Word and then drag the content into the "Your Comment" box...for what it's worth...

Word does a good job of finding misspelled words and bad grammar.

Redheaded Stepchild

Jan 16 2008, 9:48 am

uhhhh .... damn ?

LovesToSmoke

Jan 16 2008, 8:35 am

1) We can't (easily) use spell checker. This is the ONLY submission form on the ENTIRE site that does not allow copy and paste. To use a checker one would have to re-type everything. We are just NOT going to do that when HT could easily allow copy and paste on this form too. Deliberate intent on the part of HT? You bet. It helps the govt 'prove' we are idiots. Yes HT works with the govt. They are NOT our friends.

2)What's with you assholes and your multiple posts? STOP IT YOU DUMB F***S!!!

3)Now that the cat is out I want to see the rush of reporters and laywers scramble for the hides of those who commited perjury! If we do it for race we should do it for all!

4) We pot smokers are NOT useless 'drug addicts'. Who the hell are you to tell me what I can and cannot consume? What WOULD make this a better world is if you idiots who get off on persucuting us would just drop dead. We in this world do not need the likes of your kind. You are a bunch of mindless freaks who get off on hurting people because they will not acquiesce to your demands.

5) Shove Rome up your ass. It's time we disposed of ALL governments! Let the politicians work like the rest of us, let them live on what they force us to live on!

6) We should not leave the mid east until ALL islamic govt's are brought down, the entire mid east is under Jewish control and ALL muslims turn from the insidious evil that is islam! You people worship lucifer, that is allah's REAL name!

LOL

Jan 16 2008, 6:29 am

yea . We know . Its called lying .

grovesman

Jan 16 2008, 5:55 am

There is a simple explanation of the over-valuing of seized narcotics. It is how they earn their federal (and maybe some state) funding and how they are able to justify their government grant requests.

Yup.

Jan 15 2008, 10:42 pm

Word.

SpellChecker

Jan 15 2008, 9:50 pm

Please learn to spell and punctuate correctly, many of you guys give responsible smokers a bad name because you chose to neglect grammar and try to sound like thugs. Be above that and really rebel by not turning into the mindless idiots that the government wants you to be.

tedd

Jan 15 2008, 9:32 pm

math is correct!!

its money divided by 16 pounds divided by 16 ounces per pound......

Check yer reading skills
mang!!!

commonsense

Jan 15 2008, 9:26 pm

there are more than 16 ounces in 16 pounds..... your math is wrong

MassHaze

Jan 15 2008, 8:59 pm

for how much people yack about how it is bush's fault for all this shit, there is presently nothing on his desk about weed and there hasnt been for a while. He doesnt need to act, just let us NOT act.

No one "conveniently" left out $440,000. They obviously couldnt bank it because it is DRUG MONEY. It makes perfect sense why there would be a huge supply of cash there. You know what you have to use when buying 10,000 worth of weed? FUCKING CASH
Who knows how long that stack had been accumulating.

Thats assuming they accurately counted the cash, too. They do seem to be so good about numbers...

Let's legalize today

Jan 15 2008, 7:57 pm

Based on my math, I have been smoking about 2,100 2,800 dollars worth of Marijuana a week.
Not bad for someone who only makes about 37 thousand a year.

lepp

Jan 15 2008, 4:47 pm

I smoked $1000 joints in Nam.

Suggs4Drugs

Jan 15 2008, 4:36 pm

Haha, I bet that $112 joint got you pretty FUCKED UP.

Malaka

Jan 15 2008, 4:19 pm

must be some good shit

hmmm

Jan 15 2008, 4:15 pm

Good one old timer! Ain't it just a big fucking joke anymore? It's disgusting how the press and the police jack each other off all the time!
Bastards!

big baby jesus

Jan 15 2008, 3:55 pm

the question i always have for police when they give the street value of drugs is always the same, can you give me directions to that street?

Old Timer

Jan 15 2008, 2:51 pm

There only two kinds of pot . The good stuff & the shit that ain't . It just depends on how hard up you are for a buzz or how gullible you are with your money . And don't give me that supply and demand bullshit either . If stupid people didn't pay stupid prices for the shit they'd have to get realistic .
I'll spare you the "back in the day " speach .
I'm glad they got caught fudging the numbers also .

What'd be greater ?

Jan 15 2008, 2:40 pm

if they paid you to smoke it .

Buzz Ard

Jan 15 2008, 2:39 pm

I've been getting it free for years .Get yourself a bucket and some dirt ......

ya know what'd be great?

Jan 15 2008, 2:34 pm

If pot was free...

silance

Jan 15 2008, 2:31 pm

a troy ounce (~31 grams) of gold is currently ~$900. Platinum is at ~&1500. Using the rates Philidelphia Police quoted, pot is currently ~$3472 per troy ounce.

I don't think so.

heh,

Jan 15 2008, 2:29 pm

i wonder how much pot brownies are worth, because there damn good.

Re:

Jan 15 2008, 2:18 pm

"Philadephia Police say Marijuana Costs $100 Per Joint "

Actually , they didn't say that . If they had , it would have sounded silly to them also . Its funny they got caught padding the $$$$ though .

Jan 15 2008, 2:18 pm

thats the dea can't trust them with anything

Rompecorazones

Jan 15 2008, 2:18 pm

I was going to add something witty, but I'm way too high to think of anything.:(

Blunstatic420

Jan 15 2008, 2:16 pm

I used to work for the Canadian court system reading decisions from all over Canada and preparing them for publication.

It was so funny to read the amount of money marijuana was valued at. One case from B.C. gave a value of over $200,000.00 for a pound of pot, while another valued a pound and $3,500.

There is absolutely no protocol for pricing marijuana in court cases it seems. Whatever sounds good at the time goes.

RedWolf in Colorado

Jan 15 2008, 12:07 pm

Sounds like a good price to me. Personally, I never learned to roll joints, but smoke from a pipe, but at that price I'd learn.

I'm having a sale - $75 a joint for anyone interested. lol

Oh, and if you are a Colorado medical user, use this calculation for suing for damages.

Bobs buds

Jan 15 2008, 11:58 am

shit 4 $112.00 gram, I'll grow you some shit that will make you trip for three days; no joke just good smoke.

Crazy Dave from Boston$$$

Jan 15 2008, 11:40 am

I swear people will say anything to make pif look bad, that is the craziest thing i have ever heard concerning pif. PEOPLE THIS IS BULSHIT !

umm

Jan 15 2008, 11:27 am

How silly. Although it is probably worth that to those who really need their medicine. It seems a little too steep though really.