What would you have done?

That looks like 50 lbs of weed.

Could you imagine just leaving 40 lbs of weed in a closet like that?

I hope they contacted the authorities about that 30 lbs of weed.

The last thing anyone needs when renting is to be responsible for 20 lbs of weed.

What weed?
Put the part about contacting the authorities about 20 lbs at the end, and you have the perfect joke.
- What 20 lbs? They just caught a guy with a few ounces on him...
10 pounds of weed? What 5 pounds of weed? There's no 3 pounds of weed here!

With homelessness exploding due to how the asset-owning Parasite Class is jacking rents into the stratosphere, why is any residential property vacant at this time?

Vacant residential properties should be taxed out the nose - well above any rent or price appreciation - until they are occupied by legitimate tenants.

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renovation
- No, a lot are vacant because they're purchased as "investments" and just sit there empty. No work is being done on them.
Undesirable location
- Undesirable location
  In many places, that just doesn’t exist. Places like most of Canada, where people are paying 60-80% of their income just to put a roof over their head. If a place is on the rental market, it will likely have people fighting tooth-and-nail over it even if it’s been condemned and it’s being illegally rented out.
Because the last tenant put holes in the walls, their dog's piss caused the floor to lift, and the shower they plugged then overflowed fucked up the bathroom?
So there are repairs to do in order to make the place livable and then time to find somebody else who won't just wreck the place again?
Yeah there are lots of shit landlords but one of the continuing factors is the remaining good ones with a basement suite etc bailed after terrible tenants.
A vacancy tax is a good idea but there needs to be caveats for timelines especially if stuff like reasonable maintenance/repairs is taken into consideration.
Ironically my friends who bitched about "shit landlords" also happened to be the drinkin' smokin' big-dog-ownin' types who were the worst type of tenants and ruined shit for everyone else
- Sorry, that's actually already factored into the cost of the rent.
  The real reason why so many properties are vacant is that even though landlords know they could fill the vacant apartments by lowering the rent, there are companies that make money by telling landlords how much to set the rent for, even if they keep the apartments vacant. showing that they will make more money with less overhead by doing so, so that the decrease in hassle will justify the decrease in profit.
  There are a couple of various lawsuits and actions that are going on about these companies right now, and we have yet to see how it's going to play out. But, the cat is out of the bag, the genie is out of the bottle, the likelihood of rents returning back to something that people can afford with minimum wage income any time soon is pretty low.
- Oh no, instead of getting money for doing nothing you will get money for paying someone to do a cosmetic repair once every several years. Should I feel sorry for you? I entered a landlord mode so I forgot what empathy is, so I need help here.
- "good ones" that isn't a real thing
- There needs to be a distinction made between somebody renting out their downstairs to make ends meet vs. those people who buy up dozens of houses.
- Yeah there are lots of shit landlords
  No, being a landlord makes you shit.

Are those all drugs? I thought they were just clothes in those vacuum pack space saver things until I saw the one with weed.

Edit: Oh I guess it's all weed, just some of the packaging isn't totally see through.

Me too, for a second there, I'm thinking, tidiest squatters ever!
This is oregano.

What am I looking at here? I'm guessing that's weed?

I’ll need a couple bags to test and make sure. Maybe 3-4 to get enough to determine 100%. I’ll get the results back to you in a couple of months.
- I can only hope you're a dab hand at this. It's high time someone provided answers!
- I feel like even if Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg worked together on it, they would have a tough time going through 50 pounds of weed in a couple months.
  Like even if they're crazy and they each go through an ounce a day, that's a little less than a pound every two weeks, Which would mean that this is at least a two-year supply of weed for both Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg at the same time.

NGL, my boy's lucky he didn't get shot, much less disappeared.

Yeah that's $150k+ right there in a lot of states. These aren't just hippies skipping rent.
- Back in pre-legit days, one could get paid "in product" for a few months' work, and even at local market rates (~$1.1k/lb) could improve those wages 10x — if you knew how to get it to NYC, etc. (something something goldfish bulk boxes are foil-lined something something overnight shipping something something "holiday" care package cough)
People don't shoot each other over 50lbs of weed like that. Heroin maybe. But at this level, you're acting more professional
Source: trustmebro
- This reminded me of a story that happened when I was still in the Navy.
  I was stationed in San Diego and I had a friend who had gotten out and became a sheriff's deputy, in a nearby city, and he offered to let me do a ride along with him for a the day.
  There were a couple of things that happened that changed my opinion of him and cops in general (I am 99% ACAB now though).
  Towards the end of the day, someone made a call that someone was smoking meth in a motel room. My friend was called in to assist the cop already there.
  We got there and he had me stand back until he waved me in a few minutes later.
  I walked up and the OP cop had, what looked like, two skater types sitting on the curb just outside their motel room. Still teenagers.
  My friend said he needed me to help toss the room, looking for drugs while the other cop questioned them.
  Going into the room, my friend asked the kids to do him a favor and just tell him where the drugs were. They told him it was behind one of the nightstand drawers.
  Sure enough it was there (sandwich bag of pot), but my friend said we still needed to search, just in case there really was meth, or something else illegal.
  While we searched, I could hear the cop question the kids. They were from a town over and just got paid. They both lived at home and just needed a place to smoke.
  In the room was a new skate board deck, some Sonic, and an Xbox with some games. No meth. They were begging for them not to call their parents and I just thought these kids were fucked.
  We finished searching and came out, my friend gave the pot to the other cop.
  This part is what blew my mind.
  My friend looks at the kids and says, "Let me guess. You were both smoking and some guy smelled the pot, knocked on your door and asked to have some and you told him to fuck off?"
  At no point did the kids say anything about someone knocking on their door.
  The kids looked flabbergasted and stammered, "How did you know?", to which my friend said that was who probably called in, saying someone was smoking meth.
  They then took the handcuffs off and my friend then says, "Next time, don't answer the door."
  The other cop then GIVES THEM THE POT BACK, and we all walk away.
  I was sure those poor kids were fucked and I said as much. My friend then said, "I don't give a shit about pot. Kids don't break into Grandma's house and rob her so they can get money to buy pot.
- By assuming this is their only site, anyone'd be walking into a world of risk that isn't worth it. "Squatting" on multiple vacant bldgs is merely the uninformed perspective of the maint. crew that had no idea what agreements'd been in place for however long before they stumbled across them - nor any reason to think different, let's be honest. The chance that this is not an isolated, unconnected series of sites is non-zero, and the risk to the associated organization is not something I'd wish on pretty much anyone. Be smart. Don't underestimate the situation — especially in that industry. 🤌🏼
- People don't, but cops will.

The sheer amount of it makes me think that tampering with it will get you in trouble with some bad people

Yeah, I wouldn't mess with the kind of people who own that much, or even let on that I'd seen it.
I guess it depends on where you're at? Those look like ounces not pounds, honestly not that much value even if they were pounds, especially if you're in a place where it's legal.
- Maybe quarter pounds. Still tens of thousands of dollars in a legal state.
Replace two of the bags with oregano and tip off the police. The police report x kg of weed seized instead of x-½ because they want to look good. Dealers believe all is accounted for and you have 2 whole 9 bars to enjoy at your leisure.

What do you do with so much weed if you can't sell it? There's some preservation method? Like weed jam or weed pickles?

Make weed butter and leave it in the freezer. Use it to make mind blowing edibles whenever you want. Keeps for about a year.
- Huh, I've had some for longer and it hasn't turned yet. I guess I'm lucky (or my freezer is colder or idk)
- Butter kept in the freezer can be kept indefinitely.
That was gonna be my question. So how would you offload it before it goes bad?
- Does weed go bad?
Make butter and freeze it
like the other person said, concentrates. That's why concentrates are so big in the cannabis market, fresh flower doesn't keep very long or sell at the kind of volume that edibles or pens made from concentrates do
- fresh flower doesn't keep very long
  Properly dried and then shielded from light, heat and moisture, sure it will.
- Dried flower stays good for a VERY long time. I myself found some forgotten buds in those plastic orbit containers. Was few years old, still tasted and felt like fresh
Concentrates. Easy and safe ones to make at home are bubble hash or green dragon. One of my friends used to make BHO (butane honey oil), which can be quite dangerous.
My dad makes balm for his arthritis
- oh, does he apply/rub it on his back or joints ? what kind of effects does this have ? I've never heard of it

an empty closet?

Somebody must have smoked a joint in the house somewhere because I can definitely smell something

Nah bro, that's 50lbs of incense

That's 125 lb of incense.
- 15lbs of incense

In Canada that's what your grandma grows in her backyard.

I appreciate that it is at least mostly organized on the shelves. It adds a level of professionalism.

Idk dude that's tough. Less I'd 100% keep, but where I'm at this much weight probably belongs to a cartel or gang, and that sounds like it would be a pretty bad idea, I might have to report it (maybe just keep a little.)

If I know it's just some grow op of random dudes though (like, if they look like wooks), mine.

What would I do? Contemplate where the fuck I went so ethically wrong in my life that I became a landlord, that's what.

What was the conflict--he didn't want to evict squatters? Or he didn't know what to do once he found the stash?

I think the moral conflict is to call the police or just keep the stash.
- Sprinkle in a little bit of fear of calling the police.

I thought the white ones were powder and I felt a lot less conflicted. but I see now that it looks lumpy, like more weed

2 hours is enough to watch No Country for Old Men.

I thought it was cocaine at first and I was thinking End Of Watch

You can't go and ruin a small local entrepreneur like that.

I mean unless she wanted to enter the drug trafficking business, there's not much to do, hide away a few packages and then call the cops

I mean, you'll need to test one bag just to confirm what it is right?

Don't do it, they can count the bags.

Man I have been too destitute to buy any for a while and this photo got me drooling a bit fr

No conflict at all in my mind. Leave no evidence of being there. Put out a few cameras to catch the faces of anyone entering. Call the cops and the DEA, and stay clear til the dust settles.

Narc
It just weed u dumb fucking cop lmao
- It could be a serious criminal organization that breaks into other people's properties to store something illegal that could get you, the landlord, jailed, not even talking about other things like violence. This isn't your friend growing a bud and sharing it with others, this shit looks morally uncomfortable.
Love the taste of leather from your daddy?

They're just buds, and without the proper extraction equipment, there's not much you can do with it other than make some very weak edibles. I suppose you could also smoke it, but then you'd skunk up the entire neighborhood and not even get that* high.

10 years ago I would be salivating over this picture, but with legalization being a thing in many parts of the world for so long now, it's kind of hard to get excited over buds when you're used to high-terpene concentrates that are easily 5x stronger than flower.

No disrespect but my brother in dank, maybe take a solid T break if u can't smoke some buds and get high.
- That's what I'm saying. I quit smoking a couple years ago and now when I do I can't even find weed weak enough to not totally fuck me up.
- My comment was missing a word. Fixed it.
You’re the “I can’t get drunk off of beer” of weed, that’s concerning
- My comment was missing a word. Fixed it.
This dude be dropping 8kg dabs by the sounds of it x
- Not exactly. 1g of concentrate will last me almost a week. Bud just isn't that potent unless you're a Boomer, or someone who really doesn't smoke weed unless you're around people who have it. (Commonly known as the "moocher smoker")
  Not to mention that inhaling all that chlorophyll and tar is not good for your lungs, plain and simple. With a proper extract, the only things going into your lungs are terpenes and THC.
  Protect your health, and say no to cannabis buds.
without the proper extraction equipment
All you need is a a proper filter and you can shift the kief out and press it. Can get one from most fabric stores, just right micron size. Now you've got traditional hash.
That's not as effective but arguably simpler equipment than this next one. Pick up acetone and a glass/metal container and bowl (oh and a metal sieve if you've not got one, but coffee filters will do as well) from a hardware store. Crush the bud, soak it in acetone, pour the acetone into the bowl and then let it evaporate. That's oil. With a little tuning, you can make extremely high quality extracts this way.
So idk, you're probably thinking of some elaborate CO2 extraction systems as "proper extraction equipment" but none of that jazz is necessary for high quality extracts. We've been making them for literally a few thousand years by hand, lol. Although making charas is out of the question pretty much with dry weed.
Doesn't even look that great from the parts you can see and the fact it's definitely been in those packs for a long time, it's probably throat scratching med-tier over-dry weed. Meh.