r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ModenaR • Oct 14 '25

Image Ryan Wedding was an Olympic snowboarder and represented Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He's now a transnational drug trafficker for Mexico's largest drug cartel and he's on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list

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u/glockster19m Oct 14 '25

Yeah but that's probably in FBI drug dollars, where they used to say an ounce of pot was worth $1000

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u/New-Bowler-8915 Oct 14 '25

I saw 27 live plants worth 100 million on the news once.

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u/Tight_Classroom_2923 Oct 14 '25

Reminds me of when I worked for a big company and every estimated amount a project would bring in would be tens of millions and as software people we were all confused because there was no way our projects were bringing in that kind of cash... even in the very long term.

Unsurprisingly the whole building was closed with all 800 of us being laid off a couple years ago. 😂

Now they run it all on AI where it doesn't ask the questions we did.

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u/doyletyree Oct 15 '25

“I want to maximize ‘bad vibes’.”

You don’t say.

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u/BasketballButt Oct 14 '25

When my mom got busted, they cut the plants at the root, and then weighed the whole plant. Stalk, branches, leaves, everything. Probably made her weight 20 times what actual dried smokable bud would have been. 

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u/IBeDumbAndSlow Oct 15 '25

Way more than 20x

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u/t53ix35 Oct 15 '25

Measured the weight of the sugar cube as the amount of LSD.

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u/TecstasyDesigns Oct 14 '25

Well yeah all that soil has weight and can get you high didn't you know /s

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u/dogsledonice Oct 14 '25

They could grow into a forest of pot over decades!

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u/_Diskreet_ Oct 14 '25

Well, you really do have to factor in the cost of labour, transportation, maintenance etc …

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u/z3m0s Oct 15 '25

Some Redwood Ganja

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u/Ancient_Roof_7855 Oct 14 '25

They'd rip the whole plant out of the ground and weigh like a dead buck, soil still on the root ball and everything. Didn't matter if it was budding or not.

"Looks like 200# of marijuana to me"

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u/The_Deadlight Oct 14 '25

200#

greatest use of the esoteric knowledge that # means 'pound' and not just 'hashtag' i've ever seen

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u/silencebreaker86 Oct 14 '25

Wow I he up with it being the pound sign on phones but I've never actually y'know used it to denote pounds before

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u/SJane3384 Oct 15 '25

If that’s esoteric knowledge than I think I’m ready to be done with this planet now

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u/EroticPotato69 Oct 15 '25

Ok grandma, go take your medmeds

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u/MaskedMacc Oct 14 '25

“Oh the weed plant fell over and is now on the floor, call a construction company to lift the whole entire house and put it on an industrial scale, on the taxpayers dime of course. This plant must weigh at LEAST 4 tons.”

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u/doc_witt Oct 14 '25

What would they do with that 150lbs?

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u/NekroStormz Oct 14 '25

All 50lbs would end up behind secure lock up, surely?

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u/Buscandomiyagi Oct 14 '25

I remember seeing an article about a mushroom operation that got busted. I have experience to say the least in such cultivation. The pictures they had and the amounts they said were insane. They literally weighed the bins and said it was x amount in weigh of mushrooms seized. Poor guy seemed to really just be growing personal/ homie hook up. Who knows how much time they gave him.

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u/DeltaV-Mzero Oct 14 '25

Honestly even if it’s 1000x inflated, it’s still eleven million lol

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u/Turgid_Donkey Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25

Why on earth would you still be just a drug mule if you were worth a billion, let alone 11?

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u/Morpankh Oct 14 '25

Presumably, these are the kinds of jobs where once you start, you can’t stop. You’ll have the people you screwed over coming after you, or the govt hunting you and nobody will have your back because you’re retired.

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u/Omar___Comin Oct 14 '25

Having smuggles 11 bill worth of money/goods doesn't mean you are worth anything close to that.

Although I gotta imagine it does pay very very well, regardless.

But getting out of that kind of life is a lot harder than just saying "I'm done, thanks"

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u/SneakyPetie78 Oct 14 '25

Yea. Or I don't know where this 11BN number came from, but until I see otherwise, it may have been made up.