Smoking Gun
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So no one outside of Cali can go to the store and buy glass jars then sell their weed in it?
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Herb sold in fancy packaging now????
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So no one outside of Cali can go to the store and buy glass jars then sell their weed in it?
Dude cali invented weed didn't you know that.
Yeah cartoon was big on the cubes. And theres been medicine bottles and jars and all that for a looooong time.
Deep in the hood you used to be able to get bud in these sweet little plastic coffins. Those were my fav.
biohazard bags are cool too.
Yeah cartoon was big on the cubes. And theres been medicine bottles and jars and all that for a looooong time.
Deep in the hood you used to be able to get bud in these sweet little plastic coffins. Those were my fav.
biohazard bags are cool too.
fanciest packaging around these parts is a small manilla envelope
last time i bought a QP from a club in arizona they charged me extra.
$175 instead of $150
i have gotten some sweet homegrown QPs for $150.
i sincerely don't know what good it does to mention that. it does make me wonder how the fuck much people get paid in california.
$175 instead of $150
i have gotten some sweet homegrown QPs for $150.
i sincerely don't know what good it does to mention that. it does make me wonder how the fuck much people get paid in california.
BurrZurrKurr
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My circle is zip lock bag vs fold top sandwich style. Hell, few picks ago I got in the bottom of plastic shopping bag.fanciest packaging around these parts is a small manilla envelope
F
Fred el Gato
Whats inside the jar is free, but rental on the jar can be expensive.
i wrap my deals in the empty ball sacks of my enemies..
fancy packaging in northern minnesota consists of using a the Double Zipper Ziploc baggies as opposed to the single zipper sacks.......
a lunatic celebrity sheriff,
racism to make a klansman blush,
130° in the shade,
AND prices that roughly approximate the electric bill and nutes needed to grow that bag.
just another handful of reasons to avoid AZ like a hatchet wielding ex.
i miss t-town sometimes though.
and if you don't know, that's tucson kids.
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Jars are cool, but my next purchase will be a tin can press. How cool would it be to get your weed in a vacuum sealed tin can?
Worst i ever saw was great herb packaged in a condom
GrassRoots
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It was a while ago so I don't remember the details on the bust but I do remember reading about a large marijuana ring being brought down in NYC. I believe they used bicycle messenger guys to deliver and it said in the article how they used these plastic cubes and the guy at the head of the ring actually owned the facility used to create the little plastic cubes. Pretty crazy.
Here's an article I found that I think is what I was referring to. It didn't mention that he owned the plastic case facility but I'm pretty sure I've read that this guy did:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/1559205...rk-get-your-pot-order-delivered/#.T3iInxxKbZY
NEW YORK — In a city where you can get just about anything delivered to your door — groceries, dry cleaning, Chinese food — pot smokers are increasingly ordering takeout marijuana from drug rings that operate with remarkable corporate-style attention to customer satisfaction.
An untold number of otherwise law-abiding professionals in New York are having their pot delivered to their homes instead of visiting drug dens or hanging out on street corners.
Among the legions of home delivery customers is Chris, a 37-year-old salesman in Manhattan. He dials a pager number and gets a return call from a cheery dispatcher who takes his order for potent strains of marijuana.
Within a couple of hours, a well-groomed delivery man — sometimes a moonlighting actor or chef — arrives at the doorstep of his Manhattan apartment carrying weed neatly packaged in small plastic containers.
“These are very nice, discreet people,” said Chris, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition only his first name be used. “There’s an unspoken trust. It’s better than going to some street corner and getting ripped off or killed.”
The phenomenon isn’t new. It has long been the case around the country that those with enough money and the right connections could get cocaine or other drugs discreetly delivered to their homes and places of business.
But experts say home delivery has been growing in popularity, thanks to a shrewder, corporate style of dealing designed to put customers at ease and avoid the messy turf wars associated with other drugs.
'The trend in the past 10 years'
“It’s certainly been the trend in the past 10 years in urban areas that are becoming gentrified,” said Ric Curtis, an anthropology professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who specializes in the drug culture.
The corporate model — and its profit potential — were demonstrated late last year when the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it had taken down a highly sophisticated organization dubbed the Cartoon Network. DEA agents arrested 12 people after using wiretaps and surveillance and making undercover buys.
Authorities estimated that since 1999, the ring made a fortune by delivering more than a ton of marijuana, some of it grown hydroponically — without soil — in the basement of a Cape Cod-style home on 10 acres in Vermont, where an informant reported the smell of the crop was overpowering.
The dealers, working out of a roving call center, processed 600 orders a day — from doctors, lawyers, Wall Street traders — even on Christmas, investigators said. Authorities refused to give names, but in one conversation overheard last October, a courier boasted about the ring’s upscale clientele, according to court papers.
“We know comedians. We know celebrities,” the courier said. “So you might meet a rapper, a singer. We go to a lot of people.”
One former customer named Lucia, a 30-year-old employee at an entertainment cable network, recalled blatant deals done at the company’s Manhattan headquarters. Executives and employees alike would pool their orders as if they were buying lunch together, then await the arrival of a courier, Lucia said.
The cost was $60 for one plastic case holding two grams of marijuana — a steep markup, but worth it because of convenience and quality, she said.
Packaged for holiday delivery
“It was kind, kind bud,” she said. “Yummy stuff.”
The emphasis on customer service and satisfaction was evident at one stash house, where agents found more than 30 pounds of marijuana in plain view, already packaged for holiday delivery, court papers said. The packages featured the drug ring’s cartoon character logo and the greeting, “Happy Holidays From Your Friends at Cartoon!”
The operation’s alleged mastermind, John Nebel, “should have been the CEO of a Fortune 500 company,” said his attorney, Steve Zissou.
Instead, Nebel, who is awaiting trial, could get a minimum of 10 years in federal prison if convicted. Prosecutors also are demanding the forfeiture of $22 million in cash, homes, cars, motorcycles and a boat owned by him and his cohorts.
At Lucia’s workplace, employees were “bummed” by the news of Nebel’s bust, Lucia said. But worries that the office might get raided evaporated, and other dealers stepped in, though “their product does not hold up to Cartoon,” she said.
Investigators seized customers’ names and addresses from the drug operation’s computer logs. But those people face little risk of prosecution, authorities said.
Authorities conceded the home delivery trade will probably survive because of the high demand for marijuana and the low penalties for dealing it.
Under state law, most marijuana offenses “are not treated as very significant crimes,” said Bridget G. Brennen, the city’s special narcotic prosecutor. “That is why you see the marijuana delivery services proliferating. Their exposure is slight.”
^^^ the one in NYC was called Cartoon Network. It ran for quite some time. I used it a bunch of times.
Yup, those are the cubes alright. Sad to hear they may have met their end; they sure had a good run! I used to get some pretty good herb from those guys, 8-10 years ago; (they had several varieties of haze: "black haze", "green haze", "silver haze"- are a few I remember well.
...Funny that so many of the cubes made it all the way down to MD/VA.
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...Funny that so many of the cubes made it all the way down to MD/VA.
But, I folded them nicely and were barely used since I took the meds out right away! lol...I had piles of them, (a sour reminder of how much money I was spending on meds.) I doubt they actually reused them though, I'm sure they were humoring me: "Oh goodie, here comes Natty w/ her wad of recycled cannabis bags- *rolleyes*" ...Alas, it would have been smarter and more environmentally friendly, had I just taken them to the plastic bag recycling box...Oh vell.
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Actually, I remember reading on IC a few years ago that someone was doing this, I think in "tuna can" sized cans... An innovative group, we heads!
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