Is it mathematically possible for one person to smoke a pound of weed?
NJ Weedman says his acquittal on a drug charge is a victory for medical marijuana users. But the prosecutor says his claim that he requires a pound for his own medical use is mathematically impossible.
Is it mathematically possible for one person to smoke a pound of weed?
Jan Hefler
Ed Forchion, aka "NJ Weedman," says his acquittal this week on drug distribution charges is a victory for medical marijuana users and for the push to legalize marijuana.
Surprisingly, he convinced a Burlco jury that the pound of marijuana a trooper found in his car during a 2010 traffic stop was strictly for his own use.
Forchion insisted he uses the drug to alleviate bone cancer and said he had no plans to sell or share it with others.
The prosecutor, however, said that is mathematically impossible.
During the trial, Assistant Burlington County Prosecutor Michael Luciano invoked old fashioned arithmetic to contradict Forchion's claims. Now that math is being used left and right to debunk claims in the heated presidential race, numbers have grown in stature.
Holding up the "turkey bag" of marijuana buds that the trooper confiscated, Luciano questioned how Forchion could ever smoke it all by himself. "The sheer volume is significant," he said.
Then the prosecutor performed a few calculations. The bag would net more than 13,000 joints, he said, and it would take Forchion about four months to use it all. That's assuming Forchion smoked two joints every hour, 24 hours a day, every day.
"Experts say one person can't smoke all this of this," Luciano said.
Forchion had an explanation. Calling marijuana "his food and his medicine," he said he often eats it. He went on to say he had nibbled on marijuana-laced cookies during his three-day trial. "I make no apologies for using the drug," he said.
Instead of making it an impossibility, why not sit down this liar and make him eat a pound of pot? It's his food, isn't it?— DonQ- Yes many patients use it in their food. It adds a wonderful flavor to most everything. Cooking often requires using quite a bit of cannabis. Making an Italian red sauce or mayo for example requires more than your average herb. It can also be used in oil and butter that is used for cooking or eating. It is wonderful when used fresh and raw in salad or juiced. You can juice the fresh leaves and get all the medicine with out high. No one eats a bowl of died leaves, patients eat it all the time. — seabourne
- According to the prosecutor's calculations .... The NJ state law allows up to 2 ounces per month which would be 1600 joints or about 1 joint every hour 24 hours /day. Is this what the Christie adminstration approved for medical patients?— RussOCNJ
- So by the prosecutor's "old-fashioned arithmetic," an eighth-ounce bag, which sells for $25 to $50 depending on quality, and weighs 3.5 grams, yields more than 100 joints? Yeah, right. This "math" is so far off it's a joke. A full ounce yields no more than 25 to 30 joints, which makes a pound worth about 400-450 joints. A lot, yes, but by no means more than one person can consume, especially if cooking with it as well. We can assume by the acquittal that the jury didn't buy the prosecutor's hyperbole.— Trips
- If you are sick or know some one who is sick you should Google Rick Simpson's video Run From the Cure it describes his recipe for Hemp Oil treatment based on some of the Cannabis Tincture decried in the 1936 American Pharmacopoeia. To Make a few ounces it calls for one pound of medical grade dried Indica Bud.— knowa
- Obama could do it. Go Choom Gang!— bil,l atkins
- You can absolutely smoke a pound a weed. How can the prosecution possibly know how many joints you can roll, that 13,000 number is BS.— Gone Sovereign
- Ron Paul spoke with CNN railing against the U.S. war on drugs.
"This war on drugs has been a detriment to personal liberty and it's been a real abuse of liberty," Paul said. "Our prisons are full with people who have used drugs who should be treated as patients -- and they're non-violent. Someday we're gonna awake and find out that the prohibition we are following right now with drugs is no more successful, maybe a lot less successful, than the prohibition of alcohol was in the '20s."
— dag800 - Do a search for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is an international organization of criminal justice professionals who bear personal witness to the wasteful futility and harms of our current drug policies. Our experience on the front lines of the “war on drugs” has led us to call for a repeal of prohibition and its replacement with a tight system of legalized regulation, which will effectively cripple the violent cartels and street dealers who control the current illegal market.
— dag800 - CANNABIS CURES - Let me tell you how -
All vertebrates have an endocannabinoid system - it controls the other systems in the body.
When the endocannabioid system, or ECS as it is called, does it's job, part of that is sending endocannabinoids to the situation. When this misfires due to a lack of endogenous cannabinoids other systems do not function correctly. This is the cause of ailments of all sorts from minor things like motion sickness to major things like cancer. Cannabis is the only natural substance that has properties equal in all ways to our body's own endocannabinoids, the cannabinoids in cannabis.
So the cannabinoids from the cannabis fulfill the jobs of the lacking endocannabinoids, preventing disease(s), healing ailments, aiding in digestion, and keeping all systems functioning for optimal health. Science knows this, now you do. Tell Everyone!
Many patients need to adjust their ECS so their body will function as it should, only cannabis can do that.
Google "endocannabinoid system homeostasis". Enter those 3 words on a Google search if you "need more information".
It's your body, your health, and that of your neighbor's too. Tell your lawmakers to stop the manufacturing of illness by depriving humans and other living creatures of the one natural homeostasis necessity for health - the cannabis flower.— seabourne - Just legalize it already. Marijuana is LESS harmful than alcohol & nicotine!— mystikast
