When it comes to logging marijuana busts, all sales are retail
Friday, March 12, 2010 at 07:19AM Undercover agents popped a Reading man at a Cumru Township self-storage facility after he signed for a shipment of 300 pounds of pot, delivered by rig.
Narcs pegged the value of the weed at $1.3 million.
That works out to roughly $270 per ounce, which sounds about right if the pot is sold ounce by ounce to 4,800 individual buyers.
Of course, if it's wholesaled at $2,000 per pound, the value works out to only $600,000, which doesn't give the narcs that seem tingly feeling when that number gets printed in headlines.
Now that they've bagged the bud, let's hope it does not go to waste.
Why not donate it as medicine to a marijuana clinic to provide pain relief for the sick?
After all, the game commission donates poached deer meat to food kitchens. And deer meat isn't worth $4,300 a pound, even if it is sold by the ounce.
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Reader Comments (5)
Cumru Township? Geez, I thought crime only happened in Reading.
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I can't believe this happened in Cumru Township, I live in Spring Township. So I live about 5 minutes away. It's crazy that this kind of stuff is happening right down the street from me. I'd really like to know how the officers knew there was marijuana in the truck in the first place.
It seems like (from what I read) they did a pretty good job of hiding it. I think the undercover officers must of played it really well. But as for the 300 pounds of marijuana , they might as well donate it for medical use. Because what else would they need it for? It'll just sit there.