13,000 Joints
That's what a South Dakota sheriff just told me you could get from one marijuana plant. Hmmm, if a joint is somewhere between one-half gram and one gram, that comes to somewhere between 6,500 and 13,000 grams, or 15 to 30 pounds.
I would like to meet the grower who can produce such copious quantities. The indoor growers I know estimate they can get maybe one gram of usable marijuana per watt of light in a growing cycle. That means a person growing plants under a 1000 watt light will produce perhaps two pounds of smokable bud, but that typically comes from numerous plants under the light--and if the grower knows what he's doing and everything goes just right.
I'm not sure where they're getting a 15 or 30 pounds from one plant. Maybe the sheriff know of some monster mutant strain indigenous to the Dakotas, but somehow I doubt it
You can read more about this tomorrow in the story I'm preparing on the South Dakota medical marijuana initiative.
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Comment posted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/26/2006 - 7:07pmThis guy must be able to roll the ultimate pinner.
13,000 What?
Comment posted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/31/2006 - 3:15pmThis reminds me of that scene from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas where all the policemen are talking about drugs, adding facts that are not at all true.
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Comment posted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/26/2006 - 4:33pmIt's always funny when someone gives you a statistic that's both highly specific and totally wrong.
Why not round down to 10,000 or up to 15,000? The trick is that a random number like 13,000 doesn't sound made up.
He's a sheriff, he's probably been on a few raids. He knows pot plants aren't the size of a fucking oak tree. What a tool.