$8M Worth of Pot Plants Seized in Humboldt County
 

Authorities in Humboldt County said they seized $8 million worth of marijuana plants after a secret cultivation area was discovered on the Santa Rosa Range, near Orovada.

Undersheriff Curtiss Kull said investigators were tipped to the marijuana grow site on Monday after a Reno man reported he and his son were prevented from further hunting on the isolated west range by three men. Authorities? suspicions were raised that the men could have been involved in an illegal marijuana grow.

Officials said marijuana growers have become increasingly more violent and confrontational in an effort to protect their crops.

So, the sheriff?s office coordinated a team of regional law enforcement to help them search the area, Kull said. The Washoe County Sheriff?s helicopter, RAVEN, located a covered camp near where the family was confronted.

Friday, the total count of plants seized were 4,020, Kull said.

No arrests have been made.

More - http://www.rgj.com/article/20100827/...umboldt-County

$2k per plant.

that doesn't sound right to me...

Sure when the add the stems, fan leaves, water, and dirty roots.....probably a thumb or two on the scale.....yep two pounds per plant!

I thought it sounded pretty cheap compared to how they used to calculate "street value." Especially these days.

I'm shocked--shocked--that people are growing marijuana in Humboldt County.

You can get some outdoor plants to reach 2lbs each in buds, but thats probably not what they had
They probably calculate the value based on price per OZ

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Damn, shit gonna go up now.

Let farmers grow it

probably calculate price by the gram, and weigh the entire plant, bud, leaf, stalk, root, and dirt hanging from it judging by a lot of the "street value" estimates i've seen them pull out of their asses...

It's just a plant

More bullshit propaganda. Cops focus on marijuana grows because they are easy targets, they are to fucking scared to go bust meth labs.

I beg to disagree.

Whens the last time you heard about a marijuana grower being violent when the cops showed up? Yea some of these cartels might setup boobytraps but I think thats even rare. Anything law enforcement says about growers or marijuana in general is propaganda in order to justify their own existence.

i'm crushed! :(