Law enforcement officials came across a staggering find after being tipped off about possible drug-dealing: dozens of dog-food-size bags of psychedelic mushrooms worth an estimated $8.5 million at a home in rural Connecticut.
Law enforcement officials came across a staggering find after being tipped off about possible drug-dealing: dozens of dog-food-size bags of psychedelic mushrooms worth an estimated $8.5 million at a home in rural Connecticut.
Who else thinks those bags are mostly full of substrate (and the mycelium growing throughout it), not only the edible psychedelic parts that the headline and article implies? They’ll be able to really bump up those charges if they add the mass of all that other stuff that would never be sold as a drug.
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Kid posted $250k bond. So, hopefully he’ll be able to afford a good lawyer.
Because you’re 100% right. Most of those pictures are from fruiting blocks in various stages of production. Mostly water and horse poop I imagine.
There are pictures in the article. I don’t know what the psychoactive part of the mushroom is, but it looks like the bags are indeed full of grown cut mushrooms.
A few bags are. In fact I see about 1 lb of dry mushrooms in the large Ziploc bags, per bag (so less than a grand per bag). These are the close up bags on the washing machine or whatever.
Most of the bags pictured are full of substrate and water. (The lawn and on the shelves).
Additionally, cubensis, the mushrooms pictured, are easier to grow than button mushrooms. If not for Nixon’s war on hippies cubensis would cost about $5 a pound (or $50 a pound dried).
Not that it wasn’t an okay sized operation. Each of the other bags pictured would produce a couple ounces dry pretty easily. So eight of those makes a pound.