Thousands of pounds of pot worth $3.6 million found floating off Calif. coast

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

Source: MSNBC

Harbor Patrol officers found nearly 8,000 pounds worth of marijuana floating off the coast of Orange County, Calif., on Sunday, according to reports.

The marijuana found south of Los Angeles was packed in around 160 bales and had an estimated street value of $3.6 million, border patrol agents told CBS Los Angeles.

"Shortly before noon on Sunday, May 20, maritime law enforcement authorities received a tip about suspicious bales floating in the water off the coast of Orange County, near Dana Point," border patrol agent supervisor Michael Jimenez said in a statement.

The haul reportedly totaled 7,263 pounds.

Read more: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/21/11787219-thousands-of-pounds-of-pot-worth-36-million-found-floating-off-calif-coast?lite

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Does anyone think that a, "goodwill", donation to medical marijuana outlets is in the making? Just a warm and fuzzy thought for a Monday morning.

[Botany]

1. Time for a swim?

[lunatica]

2. Partay time for da fishes!

[Skelly]

3. Where I come from

They are called Square Groupers.

[april]

5. I guess that is known as California Dreaming : )

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

6. Ha ha ha ha...

... good one. Will put a smile on my face as I head out to some family burial plots to put flowers out for Memorial Day!

[CBGLuthier]

7. Must be really shitty ditchweed to be worth so little

Less than 500 a pound STREET VALUE? That's 30 bucks an oz. Dollar a gram? Let it rot in the ocean cause it can't be any good.

Uhhm, I'm just saying....

[Blue_Tires]

8. Mexico needs to step their game up

they're dragging the average of everybody's quality rating down

[Liberal Veteran]

9. I'm willing to take it off their hands.

It would probably be best to burn the stuff to get rid of it.

Due to burn bans, I'll have to burn it in very small quantities, but I'd happily volunteer to take this burden off the taxpayers.

[robbob]

10. Yeah, that is wierd...

Usually I thought the police liked to UP the value of the bust as much as they could. As in; "Let's see, if we could roll all this pot into individual joints, and each joint could sell 'on the street' for 5$, then THAT means this pot is worth..." etc. etc.

Either this pot is REALLY shitty, or I am paying WAY to much for my weed!!!

[Remmah2]

11. Some happy plankton eaters.

I can't imagine buzzed dolphins.

Whales with munchies?

[cbayer]

12. You don't want it.

It's most likely Mexican crap and was probably bound for states other than California.

This happened last month as well. A friend actually found one of the "groupers" and it was junk.

There is absolutely no reason for the high quality MMJ grown in CA to have been anywhere near a boat.

[A Simple Game]

16. This story is from last month.

on edit: sorry about this response. Something weird happened, I logged on to DU and was checking out the front page and responded to this story. Not till later did I notice all of the stories were a month old. Weird. Closed IE and reopened and went to DU and everything was fine.

Sorry for the reply, and wanted you to know the reason for it. It appeared to me that someone had posted an old story.

[bayareaboy]

13. Bales of marahoochi ...

maybe it was out in the briny depths since about 1966. Maybe someone is thinking about doing the 1kilo bricks bound with Coca-Cola, Please don't, it was horrible the first time!

[kestrel91316]

14. Sadly, water curing needs to be done in distilled water and not sea water.

[solarman350]

15. Save the Bales!

California needs the money and the high!

[nanabugg]

17. The Feds should sell it on the street and reduce the deficit! nt