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Wed Aug 1, 2012, 11:41 PM

alp227 (20,428 posts)

Deputies confiscate 3,200 pounds of marijuana during grow raids in northern Santa Cruz County

Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel

Sheriff's deputies seized more than a thousand marijuana plants from four sites in the county this week as part of their ongoing enforcement efforts.

According to Sgt. Peter Hansen, deputies were looking to determine whether the medical marijuana grows were in compliance with state laws. Of the 10 spots they searched, plants were seized from four.

"We found three cultivations that were so egregiously out of compliance that we seized all of the plants," Hansen said.

At a fourth, some plants were seized to bring the spot into compliance with medical marijuana laws. Hansen would not say specifically where the grows were other than they were all in the vicinity of the Santa Cruz Mountains in the northern part of the county.

Read more: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_21211450

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Deputies confiscate 3,200 pounds of marijuana during grow raids in northern Santa Cruz County (Original post)	alp227	Aug 2012	OP
great news for mexican cartels, keeps the price of drugs up up up nt	msongs	Aug 2012	#1
As if the weight means anything.	Webster Green	Aug 2012	#2
I heard they weigh	Maynar	Aug 2012	#3
Well, there's always crack and meth around, right?	sofa king	Aug 2012	#4
Don't forget bath salts!	BlueToTheBone	Aug 2012	#9
Meh, that would require real work	Reasonable_Argument	Aug 2012	#16
You look like heroes when playing the away games, no so much at home. nt	DCKit	Aug 2012	#5
Will it soon be legal?	12ZTR	Aug 2012	#6
I like that idea. "Necessity is the mother of practicality."	GliderGuider	Aug 2012	#10
Failed war	rks306	Aug 2012	#7
The weed prohibition needs to end.	sarcasmo	Aug 2012	#8
Why do I get the feeling that "3,200 pounds" includes not just "usable" marijuana, but the entire	ET Awful	Aug 2012	#11
There would be very little, (if any) usable marijuana in what they took.	Webster Green	Aug 2012	#12
as they used to say ...	Don C. Nuttin	Aug 2012	#13
I feel so much safer	tabasco	Aug 2012	#14
Wow! I ought to move over the hill!	KamaAina	Aug 2012	#15
3200 lbs of marijuana plants is not like 3200 lbs of marijuana.	olddad56	Aug 2012	#17

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 12:00 AM

msongs (30,485 posts)

1. great news for mexican cartels, keeps the price of drugs up up up nt

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 12:08 AM

Webster Green (13,895 posts)

2. As if the weight means anything.

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Noting the weight of a bunch of wet, unprocessed, vegetative-stage plants is pretty absurd.

The earliest outdoor plants are just now starting to stack into buds.

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 12:20 AM

Maynar (179 posts)

3. I heard they weigh

root balls, dirt and all, to pad the weight.

The pejorative "dirtballs" comes to mind.

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 12:24 AM

sofa king (8,689 posts)

4. Well, there's always crack and meth around, right?

I wonder if that will occur to these deputies over the course of this long, hot, and now sure to be very busy summer.

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 08:57 AM

BlueToTheBone (2,333 posts)

9. Don't forget bath salts!

I mean, really. Meth is the scourge of the country and they are still going after cannabis?

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Fri Aug 3, 2012, 12:50 AM

Reasonable_Argument (881 posts)

16. Meh, that would require real work

And the assets forfeiture wouldn't be as high. Remember, it's just a business and these monsters are looking to turn a profit.

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 12:31 AM

DCKit (18,282 posts)

5. You look like heroes when playing the away games, no so much at home. nt

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 03:47 AM

12ZTR (63 posts)

6. Will it soon be legal?

If local, state, federal govts. continue to falter, the green weed may be legalized to raise revenue.
Govt. has to find a source of revenue.

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 09:51 AM

GliderGuider (15,149 posts)

10. I like that idea. "Necessity is the mother of practicality."

And the mother of long-overdue sanity.

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 04:06 AM

rks306 (112 posts)

7. Failed war

War on drugs has been the longest American war ever. $25 billion a year. Stop the insanity. Legalize it and tax it.

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 08:51 AM

sarcasmo (13,550 posts)

8. The weed prohibition needs to end.

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 01:43 PM

ET Awful (24,013 posts)

11. Why do I get the feeling that "3,200 pounds" includes not just "usable" marijuana, but the entire

plant with leaves, stalk, potting soil, etc.?

I just have an odd suspicion that it does.

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 03:22 PM

Webster Green (13,895 posts)

12. There would be very little, (if any) usable marijuana in what they took.

This is the time when the buds are just beginning to form on some plants that tend to flower early. Most outdoor plants are still totally vegetative (unless they had the amount of daylight manipulated somehow), and won't even begin to stack for a couple more weeks. All the stuff they took would have been trimmed off during processing, and (in most cases) thrown away.

The bad guys sure enough got rid of the crop, but the weight of what they confiscated is totally irrelevant.

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 05:27 PM

Don C. Nuttin (84 posts)

13. as they used to say ...

Cops have the best dope.

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 09:01 PM

tabasco (18,290 posts)

14. I feel so much safer

now that some people can't mellow out.

Thanks government.

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 11:15 PM

KamaAina (45,224 posts)

15. Wow! I ought to move over the hill!

Santa Cruz County seems to have a lot more money for stuff like this than nearby places like San Jose, which just laid off a bunch of cops.

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Fri Aug 3, 2012, 01:23 AM

olddad56 (2,827 posts)

17. 3200 lbs of marijuana plants is not like 3200 lbs of marijuana.

The roots. trunk, limbs, stems, and leaves, all still green and freshly pulled out of the ground might have weighed 3200 pounds. but how much did the all of the buds weigh? Typical cop scheme. I would imagine they estimated the value to be at least several million dollars.

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