Texas Cops Need Help Getting Rid Of 200,000 Pounds Of Weed

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The Brooks County Sheriff's Department has a marijuana problem. They've got 200,000 pounds of pot, and they're complaining that it would be too expensive to destroy it.

"This is a problem that doesn't seem to be going away and anything we can get to help us to dispose of these cases once they're done and to get ready for the next one that are coming in would be a great help," said Deputy Daniel Davila.

Something tells me Toke of the Town readers could be of great assistance to the deputy. After all, at a trying time like this, we all have to pitch in, people!

All of the confiscated cannabis comes from drug cases over the past decade, reports Manuel De La Rosa at KIII-TV. And for now, all that unwanted weed sits in some storage trailers, awaiting an uncertain fate.

The marijuana dates back as far as 2000. According to authorities, the previous sheriff either didn't keep good records, or didn't get destruction orders from judges.

It's a priority for the current sheriff to get rid of the hundreds of thousands of pounds of pot. Deputies destroyed some of the bundles of bud with two visits to the Department of Public Safety incinerator in McAllen, Texas last year, but it cost them nearly $30,000.

The problem seems to be unwrapping the plastic off the marijuana, commonly used by Mexican drug smugglers, and Brooks County just doesn't have the manpower to do that. The county has a small sheriff's department, with only seven patrol officers and one criminal investigator.

"(It's) very time consuming," Deputy Davila said. "Probably for preparation to get it ready a week or more, whatever trailers we are going to use to transport it up there, and it would take several officers especially to remove the plastic from the contraband."

Just for the past 16 months, Brooks County has started keeping more marijuana seized from cases under Sheriff Rey Rodriguez. Already, they've filled two trailers with pot.

The problem is, the dank deluge continues; the cannabis cases keep coming in, and the weed just stacks up higher and higher.

The only place deputies can currently destroy the pot is at the DPS Lab in McAllen, but plans are afoot to pool resources in the Coastal Bend to destroy the weed locally.

County officials believe that would be less costly and might solve their marijuana storage problems.

Source:
http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2010/05/texas_cops_need_help_getting_rid_of_200000_pounds.php

I'll volunteer my services! Who will bring the BLUNTS! and other pieces ;)
 
I'd be down to help them dispose of those pesky nugs in the most humane way possible: consumption.

I would offer to bring the blunt wraps, but I don't know of a gas station that would have enough in supply to roll all that up.
 
fight anti-drug consumers with pro-drug consumerism... raise the demand for drugs so high that authorities wont be able to get rid of them all even if all producers got busted all at once :D
 
The county sheriff ought to sponsor an annual hemp festival. Think of the tourism dollars.

Another idea would be to enlist the help of the community. The trailers could be opened to the public and each citizen could take a certain amount that he would be responsible for.
 
If you had a stockpile of drugs ($$$), guns, and already had law authority, as these officers do, couldn't they (secretly if they were smart) set up pretty much the ultimate gang?

They already have the law on their side. If the right people were in on it, they could falsify destroying the evidence (but still run up a bill for it), re-sell the drugs, and then only target dealers who aren't selling their drugs.
 
Personally, I wouldn't want some 10-year old Mexican schwag, grown with pesticides, covered in plastic, and degraded from sitting around in some warehouse.

My friend gave me some one-year old weed that had been stored in a ziploc. It was really good when she originally got it, but worthless after a year.

Gosh, I hope the police there feel good about themselves. They have taken 200,000 tons of flowers away from their rightful owners. The flowers, by the way, make people feel giddy and laugh when they are smoked or eaten. Meanwhile, how many rapists and murderers escaped?
 
^The U.S. leads the world in violent murders and sexual assaults. Correcting the problem is obviously not a high priority to the government.

That must be what these people mean when they proclaim "USA #1".
 
lol it cost's $30,000 to get rid of the marijuana? That's insane! Our tax dollars at work for sure. Wicked number when you do the math and find out how many dollars per pound it costs to destroy the stash.
 
slimvictor said:
My friend gave me some one-year old weed that had been stored in a ziploc. It was really good when she originally got it, but worthless after a year.
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Where did they store it? I've had weed for over a year that was still good when I finally got around to smoking it. It wasn't as good as it was originally, but it wasn't terrible, just really dry.
 
Carl Landrover said:
Where did they store it? I've had weed for over a year that was still good when I finally got around to smoking it. It wasn't as good as it was originally, but it wasn't terrible, just really dry.
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I think it was just in a drawer, in a ziploc.
It is important to store weed in glass jars!
Another friend saved one bud from each excellent batch she got over 3+ years, in a glass mason jar. I loved visiting her when she was "out" of weed, since she would dip into that jar...<3
 
hacking into one of those pound bricks is a true pain in the ass (i lived in southern new mexico). I can see how burning all of this will be a task. Instead of burn it, I would hope they give away what's good and compost the rest. really the best option here.
 
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