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.
Oh I’m so grateful they are expending resources to catch this non-lethal drug before it hits the hands of groovy people. Meanwhile opioids have killed how many this year alone?
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.
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.
Phew, I feel much safer now. So glad my taxes are paying for this kinda really really fucking important law enforcement activity.
Dog-food-size bags? That’s almost as much as 20 salamanders!
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.
