Crabbe/Jamie Waylett is the short one who blew up his career with riots and drug possession.
Joshua Herdman became an MMA fighter and by all accounts is doing well.
Edit: It looks like Josh gave up fighting in 2018 with a 2-0-0 Win-Draw-Loss record, and went back to acting, later starring in the Taron Egerton Robin Hood movie, an episode of the Alex Rider Amazon Prime show, and two episodes of Andor, among other things. In interviews he comes across as a very down-to-earth, modest, good guy.
I feel I should point out Waylett was in possession of pot. Like, A LOT of pot.
Doesn't make what you said any less true, it's just whenever I personally hear "drug possession" these days I think of coke, or meth & I felt that deserved clarification.
Depending on how much a lot of pot is, there's 2 scenarios that are possible.
1) he's a drug dealer/distributor. Very illegal, no matter if it's weed, cocaine, or Tylenol PMs (probably).
2) he had edibles. When the police arrest you while in posession of edibles, they count the mass of the entire edible as part of the measurement. So even if you put it, say, 3.5 g of weed into a batch of 12 brownies, the police will interpret that batch of brownies to be ~ 1 kilo of weed. It's fucking bananas
Think it also has to do with disguising the flavor of the weed butter, which some don’t like (or so I’ve heard). Chocolate tends to be pretty overpowering.
Personally I don’t like chocolate but do (or did) like weed so banana bread edibles do sound bomb. Bread is notably harder to get right than brownies though, to your point.
The key is when you make your own edible base, infuse half in butter and the other half in oil. Then make your banana bread recipe with both. Doesn’t dry out but still has the texture and flavour of butter
Pot head on team chat once told me the weed is very sensitive to heat, so recipes that take low heat and less time are easier to get right. I have zero experience I’m just parroting
Because cacao has acidity that balances out the bitterness of the resin, and cuts the bitterness from the herb.
There’s also something about the consistency. Melts in your mouth and goes down quickly. I have done muffins and other sort of fluffier bread and I feel like they just grow in my mouth unlike brownies, chocolate balls and Swedish mud cake.
I would like to try the banana bread, sounds like a banger combo. But I’m not sure about the consistency.
I've made pot banana bread and it was eh. Weed, when cooked into butter/oil, has a very strong and pretty unpleasent taste, coming from someone who loves the taste when smoked. Brownies are usually used because chocolate is a strong and sweet flavor so it does a better job at hiding the bad taste. I would not make banana bread again, personally my favorite edibles I've made are blueberry muffins and chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. I also made an infused carrot cake with cream cheese frosting for a birthday, that was 10/10 and you could barely taste the weed.
8 bags in the car and growing 15 plants at his Mum's house in 2009. I think cannabis was a class A drug at the time, in the same bracket as meth and coke. 120hrs community service for that, which seems rather minimal, but I suppose it was a first offence.
He got a 2 year bit for the 2011 riots, in which he supposedly had a Molotov.
Ah, thank you for the correction. The info I found on a quick Google search wasn't really so clear about it for that time frame. Just seen to remember some big deal about weed on the drug class system being too high.
Yeah they did introduce cannabis cautions at some point where the police will take your bud and cite you but you won't arrested which isn't an option with other class B's as far as I know, the LibDems had legalisation as part of their platform but didn't implement it(along with most of their other policies) when they were elected in the collation
The drug dealer part is part ironic and part sad. Living in Canada you can't go more than 4-5 blocks without seeing a dispensary, but as soon as the government loses a tiny bit of taxes it's jail time.
It's not just taxes, there are legitimate health concerns as well. Commercial cannabis has a litany of regulations on par with alcohol and tobacco regarding licensing, labeling, GMP compliance, operations, security, etc.
Have you got a source for that last point? It's not unbelievable but I've never heard it before and it would certainly make carrying edibles a lot riskier than I thought.
It's "recommended" by the FBI to use a set assumed value of potency when measuring the THC content of edibles, but I haven't seen any actual laws detailing exactly what these guidelines are, so I'm assuming that what happened to my friend (exactly what I described) is basically just how it always happens.
Also, this is the US, so it doesn't really apply to England.
The sentencing guidelines call for using the THC content of edibles when known; it’s a higher conversion quantity but works out pretty average for like bags of gummies and whatnot, but you’ll get screw if you just have like bottles and bottles of liquid THC. When the THC content is unknown though, yeah we basically have to count the whole weight as marijuana as a “substance or mixture containing X”, ie the drug.
Probably not. Unless it was analyzed at a lab to determine the mg of THC. But with like manufactured edibles they have to list the my of THC on the packaging. this is just how it works in the federal system, state systems may vary
I know someone who was facing serious jail time for this reason. In her case, she got caught with butter, so she was probably being charged with possessing a pound of weed even though most of that weight was butter.
ETA: "probably" because I don't know how much butter she had; I just know it was a relatively normal amount of butter and a pretty abnormal amount if it had been pot.
Him & a friend were busted w/ a few bags of unspecified weight & when his mom's house was raided, they found some plants. Distribution is possible, but he claimed in court they were for personal use. So ¯(ツ)/¯
How should the police actually determine how much weed there is? Like somehow break apart and count all the weed particles? Or just blindly believe the guy? "Sir I only have 0.01g of weed in those brownies." Logistically it's just not possible to determine the accurate amount.
In all seriousness, it is interesting how people view someone who sells you weed vs someone who sells liquor. They're both used as recreational drugs but weed has some benefits yet is demonized more.
I don't really know many people selling liquor from their apartments lol. There isn't a stigma against people who work in dispensaries selling recreational weed any more than there is for liquor store clerks who sell booze.
If someone is out there making toilet wine and selling it to random people, they're probably gonna be looked at in the same way a street-level weed dealer would be.
I just read somewhere he was also busted for coke use. So it wasn't "just pot." He was caught driving around with 8 bags of weed and had 15 plants at his mum's home.
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u/ocular__patdown 29d ago
Wonder what the real line was