Caught with 1/4 Ton of Pot

[HankB]

Aren't there scanners and stuff at airports to pick up that you are carrying drugs?

Metal detectors & X-rays don't detect drugs, and AFAIK the mechanical "sniffers" are set to detect explosives, not dope. There may well be drug-sniffing dogs behind the scenes, but the only time I've actually encountered Officer Fido was when he greeted me on a return flight from Europe.

In any case, the story said the mule arrived on a chartered jet - the implication is it wasn't a commercial charter. Passengers on corporate & private aircraft generally don't go through any screenings . . . they often don't even use the commercial terminal.

My guess is that she was "made" in a surveillance operation, or someone on the inside blew the whistle on her - the "suspicious flights" part of the story sounds like a cover.

[gunsmith]

current price for really good ( CA ) stuff like train wreck or purple kush is between 325- 425
an oz, depending on how many ppl between you and the grower.

Quote from: 280plus on Today at 05:54:35 PM
It's pretty cheap when you can grow it in your back yard.  Wink

You can grow tobacco in many of the same areas as you can grow pot.  You can make your own wine and/or beer, even liquer.

Yet most people don't bother.  It's easier to buy from the store.

Really?? where can I score some tobacco seeds?- being a non smoker I might be able to turn a profit... it might be a good thing to be growing "One Second After"

[gunsmith]

current price for really good ( CA ) stuff like train wreck or purple kush is between 325- 425
an oz, depending on how many ppl between you and the grower.

Really?? where can I score some tobacco seeds?- being a non smoker I might be able to turn a profit... it might be a good thing to be growing "One Second After"

OK a little googleFU turned up quite a bit of info! I think I'm gonna talk the pal I live with to let me try a little Tabacco growing

[280plus]

it's called "tabackee" 

[280plus]

scanners?

I think in his case we'd be talking one hitters. I wonder what that would calc out to... 

 

[Jocassee]

it's called "tabackee" 

Not to be confused with the Wacky Tobacky.

[Jamisjockey]

Oooohhh I just came up with an idea

If the government really wanted to "win" the war on drugs, why not flood the market with cheap drugs?  Crash the price, send the cartels out of business, then go on from there?

Just an alcohol induced "thought"......

[geronimotwo]

The DEA complaint says that drug-enforcement agents in Los Angeles alerted Columbus agents that Lee was making "suspicious flights" to Columbus with "an excessive amount of luggage." When she arrived at 6:40 p.m. Monday on a Gulfstream aircraft at Lane Aviation, agents arrested her.

it's amazing what constitutes "suspicious" activity.  is there even a need for a search warrent in this case?

[never_retreat]

Aren't there scanners and stuff at airports to pick up that you are carrying drugs?

Thats the beauty of private or chartered planes, you bypass all normal airport security. (or illusion of security)

[Tallpine]

I thought all women travelled with excessive amounts of luggage...?

 

[Fly320s]

I thought all women travelled with excessive amounts of luggage...?

 

Huh, I just saw a spike-heel shoe flying westbound at high velocity.

Probably nothing. 

[BridgeRunner]

I thought all women travelled with excessive amounts of luggage...?

When I went to NOLA for a week to volunteer, I shared a room with another woman and a guy.  The guy brought about four suitcases plus sundry suitbags.  I brought two bags--a small duffel and a briefcase.  Of course, when I've gone camping with a friend, I bring a tent, a sleeping bag, if it's cold, a ground pad, a backpacking cook-kit and maybe a box of some food, and a change or two of clothes.  If I have a kid with me I bring a couple changes of clothes and diapers.  My middle-aged male friend brings:  a tent.  Another tent.  A sleeping bag, pad, small rug, extra sheet, several changes of clothes, a massive toiletry/accessory bag, MREs, assorted junk food, assorted alcohol, several books, a hatchet, an axe, a stove, another stove, another stove, a latern, another lantern, and three flashflights, a revolver, a knife, a rifle, a telescope, some more books, a dishpan-ful of assorted kitchen detritus, more junk food, several towels...I could go on and on.  Suffice to say it's a tight fit getting it all in the car, and it ain't because of my stuff.

Maybe I just travel stupidly light, but I have yet to encounter a travel situation where I don't have half as much luggage as most other people.  Guess I'd rather do without than deal with all that packing and unpacking and organizing.  Keeps it simpler. 

[KD5NRH]

You can grow tobacco in many of the same areas as you can grow pot.  You can make your own wine and/or beer, even liquer.

Yet most people don't bother.  It's easier to buy from the store.

AFAICT, pot doesn't have the several-months-of-careful-control curing process of tobacco, or at least none of the growers I've met ever put more than a couple weeks of effort into it.  There's also the fact that a pound of pot will last most users a lot longer than a pound of tobacco, so the effort to produce it results in a higher payoff.

[Jamisjockey]

My wife has an evil talent of packing suitcases right to the 50lb limit.  Probably the root cause of my back problems.

[HankB]

There's virtue in traveing as light as necessary . . . but not lighter. When I travel on business, I can last several days quite comfortably with a briefcase and a carry-on size duffle bag; the only time I have to check a bag is when I'm going to spend about a week at a conference, and anticipate getting things like conference proceedings & manufacturer's catalogs to take back.

. . . Maybe I just travel stupidly light, but I have yet to encounter a travel situation where I don't have half as much luggage as most other people.  Guess I'd rather do without than deal with all that packing and unpacking and organizing.  Keeps it simpler.  

Or maybe the others have to pack more because you don't? (I didn't see things like axe, hatchet, knife, firearms, lantern, flashlight, etc. in "your" list of camping gear . . . not even alcohol.  )

[freakazoid]

Not to be confused with the Wacky Tobacky.

Or Tomacco,

 

[Firethorn]

AFAICT, pot doesn't have the several-months-of-careful-control curing process of tobacco, or at least none of the growers I've met ever put more than a couple weeks of effort into it.  There's also the fact that a pound of pot will last most users a lot longer than a pound of tobacco, so the effort to produce it results in a higher payoff.

So it's possible that a real legal commercial effort might make for a superior product?

I've seen weed farms - I still think that if you chopped the street price by 75% while making it legal, that most home growers would stop.  Some would go commercial.  You'd still have some growing it at home, but if it's legal it's not going to be worth the effort to 'most'.

[MicroBalrog]

There's virtue in traveing as light as necessary . . . but not lighter. When I travel on business, I can last several days quite comfortably with a briefcase and a carry-on size duffle bag; the only time I have to check a bag is when I'm going to spend about a week at a conference, and anticipate getting things like conference proceedings & manufacturer's catalogs to take back. Or maybe the others have to pack more because you don't? (I didn't see things like axe, hatchet, knife, firearms, lantern, flashlight, etc. in "your" list of camping gear . . . not even alcohol.  )

Axe? Hatchet? Knife?

Just pack this.

[41magsnub]

Axe? Hatchet? Knife?

Just pack this.

That must be tougher than the US entrenching tool, I broke several of those digging fox holes using them as a pick.

[Phyphor]

So the rest of the story goes, There were 3 of us, I was the middleman and these two guys were the buyers. They had a Datsun 240z. Anyone who remembers those knows they are two seaters. Well, guess who gets to ride in the back under the hatch. This is ok except on the way back I was sitting on 2 keys in the back under the hatch. Would you believe the cops stopped us and gave us a ticket for having me in the back while I was sitting on the two keys? I swear, there I was, sitting on two keys of pot while the cop gives us a ticket.  

Then he sends us on our merry way. Hence the value of keeping your cool.

Actually the stuff was so bad it probably would have tested negative anyways. I've smoked better hay. 

Which is again why I'm in favor of legalization....we need some friggin' QUALITY CONTROL, dammit!! 

[Phyphor]

Oooohhh I just came up with an idea

If the government really wanted to "win" the war on drugs, why not flood the market with cheap drugs?  Crash the price, send the cartels out of business, then go on from there?

Just an alcohol induced "thought"......

Because that would be a sensible approach that wouldn't waste vast amounts of tax payers money on a never-ending struggle?

[Phyphor]

So it's possible that a real legal commercial effort might make for a superior product?

I've seen weed farms - I still think that if you chopped the street price by 75% while making it legal, that most home growers would stop.  Some would go commercial.  You'd still have some growing it at home, but if it's legal it's not going to be worth the effort to 'most'.

I would tend to agree.  Witness what happened post prohibition.  Once alcohol was legalized again, home growing didn't really stop, but it did take a fairly heavy dive since most folks don't want to go through the hassle of brewing their own beer or distilling their own booze. 
Now, the greatest of majority of folks who want to drink something go to the store and buy it. 

[sanglant]

Because that would be a sensible approach that wouldn't waste vast amounts of tax payers money on a never-ending struggle?

and bribe levels would drop like obama's poll numbers.

[RaspberrySurprise]

Isn't distilling your own spirits still illegal because you're not paying the taxes on it?

[Phyphor]

Beer and wine are ok for home distilling, and I know someone who makes their own everclear.  I'm not TOO positive on the aspects of the legality of making everclear without the proper paperwork.  There IS a limit to how much you can make, and if you go over a certain limit, you gotta pay the taxes.