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1. A triple short of the cycle1. 8.4 lbs...that's quite a bit isn't it. Wouldn't that about "be" a typical suitcase?
2. Why is only the woman charged with intent if they're both in the car with the suitcase?
3. Why did we start using "pleaded" instead of "pled" for past tense? I like "pled" so much more. I notice the BBTF spelling nanny doesn't even recognize "pled". Did I dream "pled"? Am I such a English Teacher Weenie (ETW) that I would dream about verbs?
Cops have a super-awesome sense of smell, sure.
But if this went as it usually does, it went like this:
COP: So, I notice you and your car smell like weed.
GUY WITH POT AND A PIPE IN HIS BABY BAG, AND 8.4 POUNDS OF POT IN THE TRUNK: Really? I don't smell anything.
COP: Well, I do. Mind if I search your car for drugs?
GUY WITH POT AND A PIPE IN HIS BABY BAG, AND 8.4 POUNDS OF POT IN THE TRUNK: Um, okay. No problem.
You'd be amazed at how often cops will ask to search a vehicle they have stopped. You eill be even more amazed at the number of people that say "OK" even if they have 8 pounds of pot in it. Folks don't seem to understand that they can say no to a search if there is no warrant. Of course, if the cop noticed the joint behind the ear of the driver, then all bets are off...
Yup.
Remember, kids, just because it's a uniformed cop with a gun, you don't HAVE to do everything he says.
So, you tell the cop "No." What could possibly go wrong?
It also took me about ten reads to realize that this was in fact not Corky Miller, another 34-year-old journeyman catcher.
see, this happened to me once. this was when my son was all of about 4 and still riding the baby seat. i was stopped for speeding. this was in jefferson parish, if anybody here is from new orleans then you know right away how high on the d1ckhead meter these guys are cruising. the highway was almost deserted on a sunday morning, i was on the way to my parents house and i was barely over the speed limit. the cop asks for my registration etc. and then starts asking me where i'm going and so on, then wants to know if he can search my trunk. my first response was utter bewilderment. i'm driving with a toddler. i'm gonna be carrying? are you an idiot? then my next thought was what the hell, all i've got in the trunk is an old trenchcoat and a spare tire and maybe some old books or something. if this guy thinks he's about to bust pablo escobar he's in for a disappointment, so i let him. also, i started to worry that if i said no, there was no telling what was going to happen and i was more worried for my son than anything else. the more i thought about it later, the angrier i got ... but i felt kind of helpless at the time.
Never, in my many years of handling marijuana, have I seen anything like 8.4 pounds of it. By my calculations, that's tens of times more of it than I've ever even been in the same building with.
Mr. Z ponders this subject, here (second verse): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoM5fLITfk
...although he's not exactly up to speed (heh!) on the Belton Rule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_v._Belton
Which proves you are neither Cheech nor Chong.
I'm guessing 8.4 pounds should have been 8.4 grams. Even 8.4 ounces would be a huge quantity and evidence of intent to distribute.
That's about how much Paul McCartney had when he got busted in Japan and famously claimed it was for personal use.
Yeah, one of these descriptions is wrong.
8.4 lb * 16 oz/lb * 300 $/oz = $40,000
If it was lose or in baggies, yes. But if you're up in that kind of weight, you're probably talking about a packaged brick, possibly 4 keys (which would be 8.8 pounds, unless they opened one). That would not take as much space as you would think -- less than four large books.
And if it was properly wrapped, it should not give off that much aroma -- unless, again they opened one for consumption.
But that gets back to the first point. Letting some drive off with a few joints, or a baggie with an ounce or so, yeah, I can see that happening.
With 4 keys in the car, though? That does not scan.
Is that what it's going for these days? Damn.
In southern Ontario we can get it for $10/gram on average, with about 28.5 grams per ounce.
Assuming economies of scale, an ounce would cost us about $250 on average. Though I hear (mostly anecdotally) that American street prices are usually a bit higher than ours.
The main reason to consider marijuana your drug of choice is not to deal with that silly metric system. I suspected that you Canadians were uncivilized, but not buying in simple 2-dram units like regular folk?
It seems ridiculous, until you try to decipher the lyrics from Band on the Run.
"I thought the major was a lady suffer-a-gette?" WTF?
It also is like 125 years worth of pot for even the heaviest smoker. So kind of hard to argue he wasn't planning to sell.
Though I hear (mostly anecdotally) that American street prices are usually a bit higher than ours.
f'ing socialism.
This story reminds me of when Nate Newton got caught with 200 LBS of pot. ... It also is like 125 years worth of pot for even the heaviest smoker.
Did you even see Nate Newton? My guess is he ate it.
Say, is it low carb?
Why would freaking Paul McCartney carry weed for any reason other than his own personal use? Why would he ever need to sell weed?
DB
Actually that's Jet, but the point still stands.
Agreed. It's not like he needed the cash. What made it funny was the quantity, which begged the question, "Geez, how much is this guy smoking?"
Which is on an album (italicized) called...
No problem if you're that awesome, you just use your huge ##### to retrieve the badge.
Agreed. It's not like he needed the cash. What made it funny was the quantity, which begged the question, "Geez, how much is this guy smoking?"
It's weird anyway, don't stars have roadies or flunkies for carrying that kind of thing?
Because the spelling sucks. It should be spelled "p-l-e-a-d, just like the present tense.
I realize that's confusing to students of English as a foreign language but, their parents were at fault there for allowing them to learn another language first.
No kidding! When I was in college, you could buy an ounce for as little as $15. And not the crappy stuff either.
No wonder the California grow-your-own law is so popular.
If it's $300/ounce, then to this unstudied mind, the DEA does a pretty good job at interdiction. But the traffickers just keep jacking up the price, to stay magnificently profitable and finding clever ways of adapting like moving it in in submarines or growing it in remote areas of national parks.
Say the current costs are 500% of what they would be compared to a legitimate producer.
Then you just tax it at 475% or something.
The customer gets a slightly cheaper product, and the government gets some money
win-win!
If you talk to any DEA agent, they know they are fighting a losing battle, and would prefer to have marijuana legalized so they can focus on coke, heroin and methamphetamine. But it's a religious issue, and whenever religion enters the picture, objectivity and common sense leave it.
The Dutch authorities do appear to be VERY diligent in cracking down on harder drugs. Or at least they claim to, I was told over and over again in Amsterdam not to assume that because pot was ok cocaine or heroin was. As I am not too interested in either of those things I didn't experience firsthand how serious the authorities are about it.
My experience in Amsterdam was kind of a let down. There were gaggles of Americans scouring the streets for drugs, and gaggles of older folks scouring the streets for Van Gogh galleries. Unfortunately for me Heineken Duff Gardens-esque Experience was closed down while I was there so I just scoured the streets for Dutch cuisine (which I was advised against...one Dutch guy said "Dutch people don't even eat Dutch food"). It was like Belgium, but more crowded and with less interesting beer.
Best advice I got about choosing a coffee shop - just go anywhere that doesn't have a Bob Marley poster.
I liked it quite a bit but I was there with a Dutch friend who is a terrific host and that makes a big difference.
Did you pick the White Widow from Afghanistan?
You might be surprised to learn how many of the worker bees buy completely into the "marijuana is evil" propaganda. There are plenty of people who really believe that they are making this a safer country by cracking down on this horrible gateway drug.
If the insane US Marshal waving his two guns around is any indication of Federal US law enforcement agents, I can easily believe that.
Best advice I got about choosing a coffee shop - just go anywhere that doesn't have a Bob Marley poster.
Go to the Jordaan. The bars and coffee shops there are quiet, pleasant places with friendly patrons. There aren't many of them, but that's a good thing.
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