Check Your Math Peterborough This Week

Apparently a rural farm was siezed and had 20 pounds of marijuana shake valued 'on da street' at 2.5 million.
This confused me a lot- first its shake not bud -who’s going to get away with selling that.
Second lets assume they made a mistake and it was in fact bud. Let say they sold all twenty pounds in one gram dime bags costing 10 dollars apiece.
On that premise let’s do the math:

10 times 28.5 (amount of grams in an ounce)
=285 dollars per ounce
285 times 16 (amount of ounce in a pound)
=4560 dollars per pound
4560 times 20 (supposed amount of marijuana 'shake')

=91200 dollars

Wow that’s a discrepancy of over 2.4 million dollars good job in showing the huge profits criminal overlords make in the illicit cannabis industry. To be fair Peterborough This Week probably got that figure from the police. But the problem is that the paper has acted as propaganda mouthpiece for the police force but uncritically accepting their math.

To be even fairer the clipping also talked about 2500 plants being stolen. Though I did get the impression that the 2.5 million dollars came just from the shake. But if you do the math assume they got 3 Os per plant and got 2000 dollars per pound you get a little over 900,000 dollars.
Its easy to see how wildly the math differs between how much weed is yielded from a plant and whether a person can hypnotically sell 450 pounds in dime bags.

That is one of the ways the police manipulate the scary factor of marijuana farms. Of course they will no longer have to bust gang controlled farms when marijuana is legalized. Kind of like there is not any major rum running rings down to the States anymore since booze has been legalized.