Largest pot bust in Washington State history
For those who have followed the emergence of home pot-growing industries in Washington State (literally enormous weed growing/selling operations run out of mostly suburban homes), the final stats from "Operation Green Reaper" - a 13-month investigation launched by local police and federal agents - should prove quite interesting:
At a news conference this afternoon, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Bartlett, flanked by DEA Special-Agent-in-Charge Arnold Moorin, said the 13-month investigation involved seizure of more than 15,000 marijuana plants.
To put that into perspective, the average cannabis plant can produce up to a pound of marijuana, which sells for an average of $2,000 on the street. That's $30 million of weed seized in a little over a year, all from home-growing operations.
Pot is already a top-10 cash crop in Washington state...and that just reflects the amount of weed seized during raids, without accounting for that which gets traded behind the backs of watchful federal agents.
The funniest thing about these raids is that they have proven in the past to do very little in terms of curbing the trade of marijuana. There's a lot of potheads in this state of ours, and something tells me they'll remain determined to get their fix no matter what the government does to stop them.
fix your website so i can read the sentences fully. pot is good. smoke it. eat it. grow it. love it. clancy bosh is the chin ball champion of the northwest. stay tall
I personally don't smoke. However, I wish our Goverment would get realistic. You can't legislate morality espeically when it comes from one of the most socially exceptable,outside of alcohol, drugs.
They laws against Maijuana are hurting or society far more then the drug itself. Since a large portion of our society does or has done the drug itself. Even the politicians who take strong stances against the drug itself has more then likely tried it, which basically says it all.