High grade hydroponic marijuana will fetch between $1800.00 and $5000.00 a pound in British Columbia. The low of $250.00 is common and gram prices range between $10 and $20 per gram. For court purposes he ranges the plants projected yields at 2, 3, 4 and 5 ounces. This allows the courts a spectrum of possibilities. It is not uncommon to get plants producing 4 ounces per plant and Det. Const. Mann has heard of plants developing 16 ounces per plant.
If a grower has 50 plants, at a 2 ounce yield these 50 plants could supply 100 ounces of marijuana or 2835 grams or 6.25 pounds.
Even smoking 10 of these marijuana cigarettes per day it would take 567 days or 1 year and 202 days to smoke all of these marijuana cigarettes. The usual life expectancy of marijuana is about 6 months. Possession for personal consumption or illicit distribution? Know your facts.2835 grams, using a low end street value of $10.00 per gram = $28,350.00.1 gram will produce 2 to 3 marijuana cigarettes. These 50 plants can make 5670 (or more) joints.
The C.L.E.U.'s Project Energreens located 13 hydroponic marijuana grows under 100 plants and 7 grows exceeding 100 plants. This includes one assist whose values are not included. Doesn't sound like much? Wrong. The total amount of marijuana seized translates to 237,032 grams which at 3 joints per gram would equal 711,096 joints. Utilizing 3 joints per gram and usage of 2 joints per day 7 days per week this would indicate that the marijuana would supply these 19 growers for a total of 18,713 days or 51 years!!!!
(NEWSLETTER - L.F.I.A. - June 1995) (Information
source Detective Constable Dave Mann of the Coordinated Law Enforcement
Unit (C.L.E.U.), Vancouver Island Joint Forces Operation. His expertise
in the field of hydroponics and indoor cultivation is likely unequalled
anywhere in Canada.)