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What’s the story, some pot grower in the early 2000’s with two plants was busted with $10m+ of street value product? After they weighed the plants, soil, roots

What’s the story, some pot grower in the early 2000’s with two plants was busted with $10m+ of street value product? After they weighed the plants, soil, roots and container of course. Minimum life sentence too, probably.

Gustomaximus 5y ago
There was an amusing flip side in US early legalisation days where some Feds raided a dispensary and did their usual over valuation of drugs taken. They were then sued with the dispensary winning, the damages requested were of course the official police valuation.
- boring_twenties 5y ago
  I don't suppose you recall any details that might help us find the story? If true this would make me happier than anything else I learned in probably the past 2 years.
  - Gustomaximus 5y ago
    Sorry it was a long time ago. I think it was on reddit. Guessing Colorado as early days of legalisation but this is news article from years ago. It might have been a state not fed thing too as I was thinking about it after and that makes more sense logically. I also tried to find/link when I wrote comment but I couldn't find it again. But 100% read about this some years back and the weight/value cops used as damages used in court.
  - gruez 5y ago
    >If true this would make me happier than anything else I learned in probably the past 2 years. until you realize that it's a nice "gotcha" moment for the cops, but the taxpayers are the ones paying the bill.
    - boring_twenties 5y ago
      Sure, and the taxpayers pay the bill every time a victim successfully sues or settles with a police department, too. So what? At the end of the day cops get away with all this shit because the taxpayers support them, whether tacitly or explicitly. Hitting them in the pocketbook is a perfectly valid tactic. Maybe once they have no money left for high school football, they'll wake up and demand that their government reign in the out of control cops. And if they don't, well, they fully deserve to pay every single victim.
      - yeetaccount4 5y ago
        It’s simple, get rid of qualified immunity. Set reasonable standards and hold them personably and financially responsible when they deviate. And while I’m on my internet soapbox, civil asset forfeiture laws gotta go too. That shit is plain theft and violates the 4th.
  - dntrkv 5y ago
    Like any other story of its type, the truth is gonna be much more mundane and nuanced.
- kingcharles 5y ago
  What were they sued for? The feds illegally taking their contraband? You can't get contraband returned, even if it was illegally seized, and I don't think you could sue for the value of it? Who knows though? I was in jail with someone who was there because he bought some heroin off a dealer and only handed over $20 instead of $40, and then ran off. The dealer then phoned the police to report his stolen heroin and the buyer got busted.

Gustomaximus 5y ago

There was an amusing flip side in US early legalisation days where some Feds raided a dispensary and did their usual over valuation of drugs taken. They were then sued with the dispensary winning, the damages requested were of course the official police valuation.

boring_twenties 5y ago
I don't suppose you recall any details that might help us find the story? If true this would make me happier than anything else I learned in probably the past 2 years.
- Gustomaximus 5y ago
  Sorry it was a long time ago. I think it was on reddit. Guessing Colorado as early days of legalisation but this is news article from years ago. It might have been a state not fed thing too as I was thinking about it after and that makes more sense logically. I also tried to find/link when I wrote comment but I couldn't find it again. But 100% read about this some years back and the weight/value cops used as damages used in court.
- gruez 5y ago
  >If true this would make me happier than anything else I learned in probably the past 2 years. until you realize that it's a nice "gotcha" moment for the cops, but the taxpayers are the ones paying the bill.
  - boring_twenties 5y ago
    Sure, and the taxpayers pay the bill every time a victim successfully sues or settles with a police department, too. So what? At the end of the day cops get away with all this shit because the taxpayers support them, whether tacitly or explicitly. Hitting them in the pocketbook is a perfectly valid tactic. Maybe once they have no money left for high school football, they'll wake up and demand that their government reign in the out of control cops. And if they don't, well, they fully deserve to pay every single victim.
    - yeetaccount4 5y ago
      It’s simple, get rid of qualified immunity. Set reasonable standards and hold them personably and financially responsible when they deviate. And while I’m on my internet soapbox, civil asset forfeiture laws gotta go too. That shit is plain theft and violates the 4th.
- dntrkv 5y ago
  Like any other story of its type, the truth is gonna be much more mundane and nuanced.
kingcharles 5y ago
What were they sued for? The feds illegally taking their contraband? You can't get contraband returned, even if it was illegally seized, and I don't think you could sue for the value of it? Who knows though? I was in jail with someone who was there because he bought some heroin off a dealer and only handed over $20 instead of $40, and then ran off. The dealer then phoned the police to report his stolen heroin and the buyer got busted.