Americans will use anything but the metric system ... unless it's important.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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Who says 3000 grams instead of 3 kg anyway.
People do it when they want to make the thing they’re presenting sound more impressive or bigger.
3000 megagigafemtograms!
THREE MILLION milligrams
I'll have you know I have a whole 27343 cents in my bank account.
pff, rich kid /j
This isn't a real thing, I've never heard anyone say "thousands of grams" in my whole life.
When people (and I mean, usually law enforcement) want to inflate the numbers on drug busts, they convert it to "doses" at some unknown conversion rate, or to "market value". Which kinda makes some sense, because it takes into account the purity level, but still sounds weird.
Drug math, keys are for coke.
Concentrate like that is usually sold by the gram. I'm going to assume they phrased it like that so we stoners can immediately visualize it as 3000 1g pots.
Bingo
Cannaballs
I need Bulma to build me a cannaball radar.
(tbf I also need a Bulma)
forbidden(?) honey jawbreaker
Pure cannabis oil?
Yeah, p forbidden.
I suddenly want to go bowling. And get high.
You know what, forget the bowling.
Bring out the bowl
No wonder Saruman started getting weird.
I might be an addict.
I saw this and immediately thought, "I would do anything to have this. I wouldn't have to buy weed for at least sixteen months if I had this."
It really only looks like that on the space station.
3000 grams, otherwise known as 3kg.