How the DEA came up with 4,000 plants worth
"$20 million to $27 million."

This tray hold 98 "cuttings" or
"clones." Each of these
98
cuttings the DEA considers a fully grown marijuana plant
worth $5,000. In other words, you are looking at $490,000.00 worth of
marijuana using fed-math.
Note that almost every plant has a tag identifying its genetic
background, date cloned, and other botanical information in which mass
marijuana growers have no interest. The DEA told the press these tags
indicated the buyer of the plant.


Here’s Todd, watering his plants just before his arrest. The visible
portion
of the top two
rows in this picture contain almost 600 plants,
or $3,000,000.00 in DEA dollars. Can you see why Todd having 4,000 plants is
not as dramatic as the DEA likes to
make it sound? Yet, according to the DEA, as reported in the Los Angeles
Times, this is "the
largest pot bust in Los Angeles County history."
I was emboldened to put in a garden myself. I felt like
a Florence Nightingale-George Washington Carver hybrid.
I had 300 plants.