Saw this article on Yahoo and in the comments someone had done the math and figured at MOST it was like $200K over a couple years. Still nothing to sneeze at for a HS kid (how's that prohibition working, society?) But...once again the sensationalism of the bust knows no bounds and facts and logic be damned.
I wonder who's in charge of pricing these kind of things. In the news there was a drug bust and there was like a little under an ounce of some really bad mexican dirt, and they said it had a street value of $1000...
With that said, it sounds like they just automatically assume everything they find comes out of god's ass.
Street value is determined by sending an intern to go buy weed in various parts of the city. Then they average it out with a complex mathematical formula.
Used to be my dealer, bought pot from him alot.. He goes to the same highschool i graduated from. Always had the best bud around, mind that it was expensive. But to be honest, me knowing the kid personally, he was just a street dealer flippin oz.'s to the local heads, nothin more. At his highest point he had 15-20k in cash, all this about him being the leader of this HUGE drug ring are BULLSHIT. And those 6 "Lieutants" they mention, just his good friends doing buisness completely unrelated to him, they make it seem like he employed them or some shit. Fuck the media. Free TP. This happened in January btw
600 Plants say they yield 4 Ounces each... 600 * 4 = 2400 2400 * 28(let's get into gs) = 67,200 67,200 * $20 = $1,344,000 = 1.3 Million The monetary value of what he was doing could have been $3 Million... I doubt he had 600 Plants though lol I like doing math while stoned.
They have to feed the Bible thumpers bullshit like this from time to time to justify their worthless job's.