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Weed dealers would commonly use a 1p coin to weigh an 1/8 oz of hash
by ojhughes 2y ago
Weed dealers would commonly use a 1p coin to weigh an 1/8 oz of hash
- rwmj 2y agoGoogle tells me a 1p coin weighs 0.1257 oz, so nearly exactly 1/8 oz. I knew someone who got caught by the metropolitan police with a fairly ordinary amount of weed (which probably wouldn't have attracted anything more than a warning), but also with a set of weights. I think he got a suspended sentence in the end. Using coins and something innocuous which could be used as a balance would seem to make sense.
- masfuerte 2y agoThis has always puzzled me. Why would you make a coin that is very nearly, but not quite, 1/8 oz? It's not a nice round metric weight either.
- pessimizer 2y agoMetric only has an advantage for precision measurements that have to be operated on arbitrarily, not for dividing things. You're usually dividing things in halves, far less often into thirds and even more rarely into fifths. 1/8 oz is an ounce that has been divided in half three times. Or you can think of it as a pound that has been divided in half seven times.
- masfuerte 2y agoI understand why they might have chosen 1/8 oz. I don't understand why they chose not quite 1/8 oz. That's the puzzle.