Law enforcement officials came across a staggering find after being tipped off about possible drug-dealing: dozens of dog-food-size bags of psychedelic mushrooms worth an estimated $8.5 million at a home in rural Connecticut.
Who else thinks those bags are mostly full of substrate (and the mycelium growing throughout it), not only the edible psychedelic parts that the headline and article implies? They’ll be able to really bump up those charges if they add the mass of all that other stuff that would never be sold as a drug.
That’s exactly what they did.
And then they valued it all at $1,000 an ounce.
Cops are such fucking scrubs.
Kid posted $250k bond. So, hopefully he’ll be able to afford a good lawyer.
Because you’re 100% right. Most of those pictures are from fruiting blocks in various stages of production. Mostly water and horse poop I imagine.
There are pictures in the article. I don’t know what the psychoactive part of the mushroom is, but it looks like the bags are indeed full of grown cut mushrooms.
A few bags are. In fact I see about 1 lb of dry mushrooms in the large Ziploc bags, per bag (so less than a grand per bag). These are the close up bags on the washing machine or whatever.
Most of the bags pictured are full of substrate and water. (The lawn and on the shelves).
Additionally, cubensis, the mushrooms pictured, are easier to grow than button mushrooms. If not for Nixon’s war on hippies cubensis would cost about $5 a pound (or $50 a pound dried).
Not that it wasn’t an okay sized operation. Each of the other bags pictured would produce a couple ounces dry pretty easily. So eight of those makes a pound.
WE GOT HIM BOYS! NO ONE SEEKS ENLIGHTENMENT ON OUR WATCH!
That’ll keep the youth from giggling, bonding, and appreciating the beauty of the forest around them.
Super glue all those third eyes closed!
Phew, I feel much safer now. So glad my taxes are paying for this kinda really really fucking important law enforcement activity.
Can you imagine how many new conservatists the republican party would have missed if all these mushrooms were consumed?
Dog-food-size bags? That’s almost as much as 20 salamanders!
America will use anything except the metric system
I feel like this isn’t something about not using metric measurements but rather something to help visualisation. I’m all for using metric but it’s still nice to have something to attach to the number. Especially for bigger numbers.
Even in countries/places that use metric, i’ve seen comparisons like this like (x meters = 1 footbal stadium) and so on.
It’s actually a lie. The dog food sized bags comment.
The dry mushrooms are in large ziplock bags. The bags they’re growing in hold five pounds of substrate and water.
I grow edible mushrooms in those same bags. They’re not anywhere close to dog food bags.
Yeah, I was picturing the big 40lb dog food bags. Those look like 20lb of dog food at most in the big ones. It’s not useful at best, and misleading at worst. If they had just said “2.5gal plastic bags” (which is exactly what the purple zipper ones are, 2.5gal Hefty freezer bags) it would have been far more useful, because not only is it accurate, it’s more familiar to more people.
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It’s so very close!
What size bag of dog food? You can get anything from 5lb to 50lb. I bet there are even bigger if you buy at bulk stores or online.
charged a 21-year-old man with operating a drug factory and possession with intent to sell/distribute narcotics.
Narcotics?
Cops call every drug a narcotic because cops are dumb and know next to nothing about drugs
“I don’t know the law, I just enforce it” - them, probably
Cops like “narcotic” because they think it makes them sound smarter than saying “drug”. same reason they say vehicle and perpetrator
Them literally. When’s the last time you even heard of a cop with a law degree higher than “some courses at community college”?
They are narcotics though by definition.
Edit Merriam Webster: “any controlled substance, whether sedative or stimulant:”
I LIKE MAGIC MUSHROOMS YOU TWATS IM JUST CORRECT
Lemmy is so fucking stubborn when presented with conflicting information. Grow up you bell ends.
You’re so far gone in your cop hatred you see me as quoting the dictionary as somehow sticking up for cops. That’s how polarised and shitty you are.
Narcotics by definition are opiates. Mushrooms are a psychedelic.
Merriam Webster “any controlled substance, whether sedative or stimulant:”
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Not by all definitions of the word, narcotic can just mean an illegal drug. Different dictionaries define the word differently.
Really annoying how I’ve been downvoted for this, Merriam Webster defines a narcotic as “any controlled substance, whether sedative or stimulant:”
That’s a bullshit definition that came about because of politicians and cops misusing the word so much.
It’s literally a definition. I’m being downvoted for being correct.
Definitions are not all created equal. It’s about time you learned that.
Really doesnt hold up when the DEA defines narcotics literally as opioids…
https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Narcotics-2020.pdf
I didn’t realise the DEA were the only people who could define things. Outside of the US it can generally refer to illegal drugs
Are you telling me Merriam Webster and Dictionary.com is wrong? Things can have colloquial definitions
You really wanna die on this hill huh? You seem to be missing the point IMO. It doesnt really matter what Merriam Webster or even Funken Wagnells define ‘Narcotic’ as. They aren’t out there arresting people. All you’re doing by sticking to your guns on this is making it look like you’re a bootlicker who thinks it’s perfectly acceptable for cops to misidentify substances so they can make their mushroom grow bust look like they took down a cartel. Insisting that words can mean whatever we want them to mean is fine, in a creative writing class. Not when those definitions can be weaponized to ruin people’s lives.
Which dictionaries are those? A quick google gives almost entirely results defining it as opiates.
Merriam Webster 2nd definition “any controlled substance, whether sedative or stimulant:”
Almost entirely is NOT the same as entirely.
Splain yourself that is not my understanding.
But I am not a scientician so plz correct me if I’m wrong. Definition?
A quick Google search “a drug or other substance that affects mood or behaviour and is consumed for non-medical purposes, especially one sold illegally.”
Merriam Webster “any controlled substance, whether sedative or stimulant:”
source: copthink.gov
Merriam Webster “any controlled substance, whether sedative or stimulant:”
You’re actually wrong.
Dictionary.com “any controlled substance whether sedative or stimulant”
other substance that affects mood or behaviour and is consumed for non-medical purposes
Mmmm then I’m about to make delicious narcotics for breakfast. Cup of hot narcotics, and a plate of narcotics with narcotics on the side.
Merriam Webster “any controlled substance, whether sedative or stimulant:”
Are magic mushrooms considered to be a stimulant or a sedative? I thought they were hallucinogens.
EDIT:
Stimulant: an agent (such as a drug) that produces a temporary increase of the functional activity or efficiency of an organism or any of its parts.
Sedative: tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize nervousness or excitement.
Hallucinagen: a substance that induces hallucinations.
Psylocibin: a hallucinogenic indole obtained from a fungus (such as Psilocybe mexicana or P. cubensis synonym Stropharia cubensis).
there are also millions of dollars of psychedelic mushrooms in the fucking ground.
are they also going to arrest the fucking groumd?
They would if they could
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Cops? The only agency worried about these guys should be the IRS.
Buzz Killington gotta protect those big pharma profits.
The mushrooms, worth 6.5 million dollars, were safely stowed in the evidence room
The mushrooms, worth 4.2 million dollars will be destroyed by incinerator at a later date.
The mushrooms, worth 3.7 million dollars, are to be transported to the incinerator in a truck.
A date has has been set for the 2.2 million dollars worth of mushroom to be destroyed.
Oregon voters approved decriminalizing small amounts of psychedelics in 2020, and separately were the first to approve the supervised use of psilocybin in a therapeutic setting. Two years later, Colorado voters passed a ballot measure to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms and to create state-regulated centers where participants can experience the drug under supervision.
It’s no different than the days when weed was first legalized and the DEA would raid dispensaries in California.
And made all the rest not caught triple in value and since you can grow it everywhere the incentive is now greater than ever to do so.
The drug war is a failure and a predictable one long before the government attempted it.
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Great, thx, for a sec I thought the thumbnail was about domestic geese with military training and discipline standing in attention.
Deputy Tulley of the Sheriff’s Dept. told reporters on Friday evening, “This is one of the biggest shroomraidswe experienceontheplanet inharmonywiththesunandthemoon likethe chinacatsunflower.”
My personal stash!
