Raid Nets $4 Million In Marijuana
Joe | Aug 18, 2010 | Comments 4
In yet another example of the amazing might and efficiency of California law enforcement, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department made a massive marijuana bust in the San Gabriel Valley recently, seizing some 1,600 plants worth about $4 million.
[Deputies] detained seven Chinese immigrants as well as the operation’s alleged ring leader, 49-year-old Minh Luu of San Gabriel.
Investigators said the suspects lived in single-story homes, and almost every room was filled with marijuana plants. Three of the four homes were about 2,000 square feet.
And why exactly would Chinese immigrants want to come here and grow marijuana? Because of it’s prohibition, which makes the price of cannabis artificially inflated, making the profits that can be made more enticing.
And of course making a $4 million bust is enticing to law enforcement; that’s something they can point to during their next budget review and say, “check that out! 4 million bucks!” Basically implying they somehow did $4 million worth of work when all they really did was take resources away from more important investigations.
And it also cuts into marijuana supply – which police will point to as a good thing – but all that does is ensure that cannabis stays profitable enough to have a never-ending line of people wanting to get into the business. Wasteful, useless, and stupid pretty much sums it up.
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wow I feel safer now that those evil marijuana growers are in custody .. not
when will they give up the fight against a plant.
I do not feel comfortable with my tax dollars squandered chasing a plant.
4 million ? is there anyone in law enforcement that dosnt lie ?
from my view something is only worth what someone will pay and the days of 5000.00 pounds have long left CA.
NJ maybe but not CA
1 plant = 1 lb = 5000 x 1600
poppycock
Why would any person believe that they have the right to dictate to another person what they may or may not do with their own lives and bodies? Why waste so much time and energy on all the wrong issues? We are surrounded by serious and very real dangers. The next huge economic meltdown is approaching which will be far worse than the last one. While all this and more is going down, the busy bodies are worried about whether or not someone is smoking a bowl of flowers or snorting and injecting various powders. Drug use is not going away and the millions of people involved on a regular basis are your neighbors, business associates, co-workers, PTA members, little league coaches, cops, firefighters, nurses, doctors, and even politicians. We need to prioritize our agenda and spend our energies protecting and loving our children and each other.
Prohibition isn’t like a disease where we’re still waiting for the cure to be discovered – we know the cure for this. This isn’t like putting a man on the moon or inventing the Internet – it doesn’t take some stroke of genius or feat of technology. We have everything we need, right now, to end this moronothon. Rarely in the history of mankind have we encountered a problem of such magnitude and consequence that is so eminently solvable.
The Founding Fathers were not social conservatives who believed that citizens should be subordinate to any particular narrow religious moral order. That is what the whole concept of unalienable individual rights means, and sumptuary laws, especially in the form of prohibition, were something they continually warned about.
What a lost and futile cause Prohibition is! The country is flat busted. It’s ‘Weimar Republic’ here we come. It would make more sense, and cost a hell of a lot less, if the Feds created an agency to count grains of sand on all of the US beaches. Why in Sam Hill would such a great nation purposely shoot itself in the foot?
So in your opinion growing marijuana because you can make a ton of money due to it being illegal is not a crime? Making the decision to only do something because it is so profitable is not a crime. Under your logic the day marijuana is legal there will be 100s of thousands of newly minted burglars and meth dealers.
To Dave: I’m not sure what article you read; of course it’s a crime to grow marijuana, I’m saying it shouldn’t be because it’s a harmless plant and no one has the right to tell you what to put in your body.