Police seize cannabis after Nimbin raid

[boulder]

More than 100 cannabis plants and 470 grams of processed cannabis with a street value of nearly $250,000 was found during a weekend police raid on a storage shed at Nimbin in northern New South Wales.

 

Police say a complex hydroponics set-up was also found during the raid on the Nimbin Industrial Estate.

 

In another operation, a 46-year-old woman is due to face several drug charges when she appears in court next month after a Christmas Eve raid on a house in East Lismore.

 

Plants with a street value of $86,000, more than two kilograms of cannabis leaf and a large quantity of hydroponic equipment was seized.

 

The woman is due to appear in Lismore Local Court of January 12.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1017819.htm

[Brash]

Does anyone suspect that the Lismore police are keeping tabs on who uses the local Hydro shops?

[99waystofuckyou]

Sounds like it, praise for internet ordering

[Gaytimegrower]

How can anyone afford to buy pot in NSW ? According to the above write-up, pot is selling for a massive $531.91 per ounce.

 

That is sheer greed and the growers deserve to get caught. It is from greed like this that growers are brought undone. People get so pissed off with being ripped off they decide to do something about it. Then again, if they dont like the price, they should grow their own and take the risk as well.

 

In Perth, top quality hydro is selling for $300 - $375 per ounce.

 

Thank god for Oz Stoners and all those within that help make growing our own a lot easier.

 

Thanks to all.

[towelie]

I might be wrong but I'd be surprised if weed actually went for that price in NSW. I've always asumed that the police like to exagerate things in this sense, maybe in an effort to make pot growers look like money-grabbing arseholes and make their own efforts look more impressive to the public. All this helps with gaining the public's support in the "war against drugs". Again I may be wrong but that's the way it's always looked to me, cops all over the world do it.

[white_cluster]

Does anyone suspect that the Lismore police are keeping tabs on who uses the local Hydro shops?

 

no fucking way mate, unless they are surveying the place is what you mean. then maybe.

 

anyway gaytime grower, I dunno where you got your numbers, or how you knew how much each plant yielded, Do you think each plant yields a certain exact amount of pot or something???

[Guest BudWaver]

good ole 200 for primo in sa.....and 200 fo shit too..go figure......

 

they obviously didnt base it on SA mj prices

[Brash]

I once heard a comedian comment on police 'estimates of street value' - his response was "I don't know where they buy their drugs from but at that price, they are surely been ripped off"

 

I currently pay $330/28g for primo hydro. I understand growers are taking a huge legal risk and that risk is tabulated into the price. It's not the grower's greed that is the problem, it is of course the illegal nature of the product and the enthusiasm of the police in enforcing unjust laws.

[Brash]

On the issue of police checking Hydro shop customers I would think this is done covertly as opposed to having the permission of the shop owner to 'investigate' their clients.

[Guest IMPOSTORsolsNON-MEMBER]

More than 100 cannabis plants and 470 grams of processed cannabis with a street value of nearly $250,000 was found during a weekend police raid on a storage shed at Nimbin in northern New South Wales

what is value of plants???100 =250k, how much is 1lb? on top.

Nimbin Industrial Estate.

...huh???? what industrial estate?

can i be enlightened?