Hmmm, they say they found 1000 plants between 25 houses = 40 plants per house. Hmmm, a major crime gang operation ?

I'd say each house had 3 - 4 mothers, and maybe 18 cuttings in veg and 18 plants in the bloom rooms. 18 plants is a bit much for 2 people per house hold to be fair but I don't think it's enormous.

But lets do the math and see just how dangerous to the economy these people were.

So, Lets say 1000 plants at 2 ounces per plants. I say 2 ounces to be moderate and to take into account problems etc.

2000 ounces at lets say $300 per ounce. I'm just guessing the US price here. 2000 x 300 = 600,000 Dollars.

Now lets divide the 600,000$ by the amount of households that were involved. 600,000 / 25 = an average of $24,000 per household @ 5 harvests per year = $120,000

From what the article mentions I think these people are just regular Mr and Mrs Smith just growing a bit in a basement. A criminal gang would have more than 40 plants per 'grow' house.

The house in the article looked very nice so I'm guessing the rent on something like that would be, at a guess, $1,000 - 1,500 per month. depending on the area of course = $18,000 P/A

So, after rent/mortgage these people were left with $100,000. To me that sounds like one person in one household having a good job. Or 2 parents working and making a good wage between them.

Good for them, making a million Dollars in 10 years between 2 people. Not a bad living, not the most lavish either, certainly not an organised drug gang. Organised drug gangs makes one million dollars in a few days not 10 years.

I hope those cops give themselves good hard pats on the backs. They ruined a lot of lives in this bust of some plant extract which has never killed anyone. Children will be re-homed because of a plant. "But what about the kids" I hear so often...

Smoking weed doesn't make good soldiers, and the American government is a little worried about that. That the be all and end all of weed prohibition in the US.

Go team America...