Dope! 11 pounds of hash seized at airport

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Jun 9, 2008 6:19 PM EDT

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Customs officials at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport have seized more than 11 pounds of hashish that was concealed in wooden clothes hangers.

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Dope found at airport? was it in Europe

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#1 - Mon Jun 9, 2008 6:19 PM EDT

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Joe Cement Mason

Come on now, you're not serious are you? Charlotte Douglas International Airport, as in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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#1.1 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:27 PM EDT

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Buffantoo

Why does harmful illicit hashis worth $144.000?
And for whom?
Sounds like advertisement further than chase victory.

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#2 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:57 AM EDT

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Joe Cement Mason

Idiots. At least the U.S. government won't put them to death like the governments of some countries.

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#3 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:26 PM EDT

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bull-295554

mmmmmm,11 pounds of hashish....yummy....i wanna use the cleaners that use THOSE hangers,for sure....has is so hard to find these days,the govt needs to jes get off their high horse and let us have it

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#4 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:02 PM EDT

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Joe Cement Mason

I was told once that hash was collected by utilizing naked women with oiled bodies running through the fields. Any thoughts on that?

Can you be sure it was women and not men? What parts of the body was the hash scraped from? It certainly makes me want to not smoke it.

Of course, this was forty years ago. It's possible a newer method of collection is now used.

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#5 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:20 PM EDT

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bull-295554

heh,funny....no,hash is made by leeching the oils and cannabinoids and thc and such out of pot and pot leaves....the easiest way is to get high alcohol content grain alcohol(190 proof everclear is good),and soaking the pot buds and leaves until it turns dark green,removing the solids,then pouring it into a bowl,letting the alcohol evaporate,and scraping it with a razor....bam,hash....if you scraped a naked persons body after they ran through a pot field,you would get dirt and sweat and such,not hash.....funny story though,i got a laugh from yer comment!(there are more involved ways to cheaply make large quantities,also,but i wont get into those....the involved large presses and such)

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#5.1 - Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:31 PM EDT

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actually what your talking about is hash oil or honey oil as we call it in Canada. I've spent some time in nelson BC so I know a little. There are lots of ways to make hash. Like your lower grade pressed hash which is usually done by filtering marijuana trichromes from the mass using screens and then pressing it into a brick. usually hard and crumbly do to a high content of leaf matter. I prefer ice water extraction which uses ice water as medium and then multiple layered bags with screens at the bottom. It gives a nice soft maleable hash like putty. Now traditionally hash was rubed. you just rub the plants eventually hash just collects on your hands. I think ascetics of shiva do that for enlightenment. There actually is hash made in the way joe cement stated Its called body hash. his details are just coloured a little. I am pretty sure they do this in jamaica.

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#5.2 - Tue Oct 7, 2008 11:35 PM EDT

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Drendal

I'd really like to know where they are coming up with these monetary values for recovered drugs from raids. I've (in the past) bought several types of street drugs... trust me, the only person that would pay over 11K for a pound of hash would have to be bill gates. I mean are they serious about these amounts? If illegal drugs were worth that much money don't you think there would be a lot more people selling them? the only way a pound of hash would be worth that much money is if it were wrapped around a substantial amount of gold. First they lie about why they outlaw it in the first place, then they inflate the monetary value of anything they confiscate to make everything sound like a major bust. No one in their right mind would pay 11000 for a pound of hash when you could get it anywhere I've ever heard of for less than 1000. The people who come up with these values are obviously completely out of touch with reality.

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#6 - Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:11 AM EDT

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Buffantoo

Drendal: probably they calculate the cost of detection, confiscation/pound of these drugs.

They are returning it or they do destroying all of it, still a mistery. If they find the smugglers at open waters yet, its a constant job for them to return the hash, not to bring in the USA , because they would break the law themselves, plus they could be less busy to be employed if they destroy the drugs, that the smugglers might try to bring in again.

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#6.1 - Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:14 AM EST

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