joedirt wrote:
Why do you think gangs fight? Why do you think Cartels in Mexico behead people? It is for control of black markets. If he had 3.3 pounds, he probably bought it from organized crime.
So you're concerned about lessening violence? You know what would lessen violence even more? Legalizing marijuana. And I don't even partake for the record.
They gonna lite his 120 lbs ass in jail. Maybe Jared Subway will be his boyfriend.
3 lbs is not a big deal. Just stop it. Have some of you ever been off your front porch ?
Old Man by the Sea wrote:
3 lbs is not a big deal. Just stop it. Have some of you ever been off your front porch ?
LOL!!
I wouldn't waste my time unless I could get at least 200 lbs!!
Unfortunately most posters on this site haven't lived long enough to see the long term side effects of recreational drug use (especially recreational drug use at a young age). Harmless pot has been a factor in at least three suicides of people I have known growing up, and at least two individuals I have known that have had to check in to mental health clinics due to psychosis from smoking weed. It is not a harmless drug. I have seen it ruin enough lives to know better. This guy will be dealing with the adverse effects of this arrest for the rest of his life.
sbeefyk2 wrote:
Isitreallynojoke? wrote:
I don't see what the big deal is over weed...even at 3.3lbs. I guess I'm used to being in SoCal and seeing people just waltz into dispensaries with trash bags full of flower and no one batting an eye.
And 3.3lbs of top shelf, private reserve retail is only worth $1500-2000. That $15k street value in the article is so dishonest and disgusting.
Guess too much weed has stunted your math skills.
At $10 per gram, 3.3 pounds is $15k. I’ll go slower since clearly you’re a pothead so math is hard.
There’s about 28 grams per ounce. There’s 16 oz in a pound. So there’s 52.8 oz in 3.3 pounds. 52.8 x 28 gives you 1478 grams in 3.3 pounds. At $10 per gram 3.3 pounds is 15k.
Lay off the weed dude. All the propaganda saying it doesnt hurt you is... well... just that: propaganda.
Hey man, you really don't know what you're talking about! I was at the dispensary about 3 hours ago in San Diego county and you can buy one pound of private reserve top shelf Bud for $1,000. So I multiply that times 3.3 and your retail value is 3.3 thousand dollars! Nowhere near the $15,000 stated. Just because Illinois is a backwards state with Draconian drug laws doesn't mean they get to jack up the retail price!
Youdontknowwhatyouretalkingabiut wrote:
sbeefyk2 wrote:
Guess too much weed has stunted your math skills.
At $10 per gram, 3.3 pounds is $15k. I’ll go slower since clearly you’re a pothead so math is hard.
There’s about 28 grams per ounce. There’s 16 oz in a pound. So there’s 52.8 oz in 3.3 pounds. 52.8 x 28 gives you 1478 grams in 3.3 pounds. At $10 per gram 3.3 pounds is 15k.
Lay off the weed dude. All the propaganda saying it doesnt hurt you is... well... just that: propaganda.
Hey man, you really don't know what you're talking about! I was at the dispensary about 3 hours ago in San Diego county and you can buy one pound of private reserve top shelf Bud for $1,000. So I multiply that times 3.3 and your retail value is 3.3 thousand dollars! Nowhere near the $15,000 stated. Just because Illinois is a backwards state with Draconian drug laws doesn't mean they get to jack up the retail price!
Please show me ANY medical marijuana website that has $1,000 pounds. PLEASE. Because I’ve been to quite a few stores and only seen 90$ quads, 50$ 8ths and 20$ grams and was only allowed to purchase a half O.
Until then, a 10$ per gram price is more than fair in this estimate. In fact, 10$ per gram is the price you would pay if you sold it as an ounce. Selling to college students, it’s 15-20$ per gram. If he couldn’t makes 20k from that, he’s not a good salesman.
joedirt wrote:
Unfortunately most posters on this site haven't lived long enough to see the long term side effects of recreational drug use (especially recreational drug use at a young age). Harmless pot has been a factor in at least three suicides of people I have known growing up, and at least two individuals I have known that have had to check in to mental health clinics due to psychosis from smoking weed. It is not a harmless drug. I have seen it ruin enough lives to know better. This guy will be dealing with the adverse effects of this arrest for the rest of his life.
You do know that he has to be convicted first. He has the right to an attorney. He is not a felon yet, and if he admits to it, may plea bargain without doing prison time. But you probably don't understand such nuance.
joedirt wrote:
Unfortunately most posters on this site haven't lived long enough to see the long term side effects of recreational drug use (especially recreational drug use at a young age). Harmless pot has been a factor in at least three suicides of people I have known growing up, and at least two individuals I have known that have had to check in to mental health clinics due to psychosis from smoking weed. It is not a harmless drug. I have seen it ruin enough lives to know better. This guy will be dealing with the adverse effects of this arrest for the rest of his life.
Jeff Sessions is that you??!?!?!1?!!?
vivalarepublica wrote:
totally not wrote:
Illicit black market activity? This isn't heroin we're talking here dude. Decriminalize it, take away the profit margin, it's no longer lucrative as a criminal enterprise. Not rocket science.
But that would take away activity for our massive drug and criminal enforcement apparatus, and we can't leave them out in the cold.
You and I are on exactly the same page; this is all just ludicrous and retrograde thinking. Idiots like Sessions want to move us back to the 50's to a life that worked very well for conservative, religious white guys... but no one else.
joedirt wrote:
Unfortunately most posters on this site haven't lived long enough to see the long term side effects of recreational drug use (especially recreational drug use at a young age). Harmless pot has been a factor in at least three suicides of people I have known growing up, and at least two individuals I have known that have had to check in to mental health clinics due to psychosis from smoking weed. It is not a harmless drug. I have seen it ruin enough lives to know better. This guy will be dealing with the adverse effects of this arrest for the rest of his life.
LOL... seriously?? People who commit suicide do so for a wide variety of reasons, most of which have to do with untreated depression. What possible evidence do you have that pot was a factor in their suicides?? How do you know pot didn't lower their stress and depression to a point that delayed their suicides?
Psychosis from smoking weed? Again, do you have access to their clinical diagnosis that states pot was the causal effect? Your post is a classic example of the fallacy of the small sample set... "Gee, I've seen a few people who had problems I THINK were caused by pot (with no actual evidence whatsoever) therefor it must be bad!"
I know doctors, scientists, software engineers, civil engineers, incredibly successful professionals from all walks of life, fit athletes as well) who smoke pot recreationally and have wonderful, rich, great lives.
Your post is just silly.
joedirt wrote:
Unfortunately most posters on this site haven't lived long enough to see the long term side effects of recreational drug use (especially recreational drug use at a young age). Harmless pot has been a factor in at least three suicides of people I have known growing up, and at least two individuals I have known that have had to check in to mental health clinics due to psychosis from smoking weed. It is not a harmless drug. I have seen it ruin enough lives to know better. This guy will be dealing with the adverse effects of this arrest for the rest of his life.
Just turned 50.
Steady MJ user since 19.
Medical card holder.
Consume 50mg a day via edibles, THC&CED.
Smoke still, occasionally too.
Own two businesses, hire 12 people, have two boys, track stars, one D1 college bound.
Life's grand.
Where's the adverse side effects Joe dirt?
The only adversity that vice ever brought me was due to hard liquor.
Maybe this explains how North Central has had all the division I transfers over the years give up athletic scholarships and be able to afford to pay tuition at a $50,000 a year school.
joedirt wrote:
Unfortunately most posters on this site haven't lived long enough to see the long term side effects of recreational drug use (especially recreational drug use at a young age). Harmless pot has been a factor in at least three suicides of people I have known growing up, and at least two individuals I have known that have had to check in to mental health clinics due to psychosis from smoking weed. It is not a harmless drug. I have seen it ruin enough lives to know better. This guy will be dealing with the adverse effects of this arrest for the rest of his life.
OK now you're just trollin.....
"These kids today with their Beatles and mop top hair cuts! I tell ya that wouldn't fly back in my day..." JoeDirt
tomato juice wrote:
Maybe this explains how North Central has had all the division I transfers over the years give up athletic scholarships and be able to afford to pay tuition at a $50,000 a year school.
What do you mean by "......all those division 1 transfers"? How many are there?
Besides the young man in the article, name two.
Aron Sebhat
Stupid clumsy fingers! I meant to say Aron Sebhat and, going back a number of years, Ed Riegert. There might well be others, but you asked for only two.
Aron Spivey
joedirt wrote:
Why do you think gangs fight? Why do you think Cartels in Mexico behead people? It is for control of black markets. If he had 3.3 pounds, he probably bought it from organized crime.
lol, organized crime? right.....
Perhaps if it was 3lbs of cocaine. But, Marijuana? You don't know what you are talking about....