Perhaps your distortion is unintended, or just ignorance...
An "estimated" total of the grass found was alleged to be roughly 250 pounds.
I know how the agents grab this stuff, because a guy who lived near me got popped some years ago. The Feds grabbed the whole plant with clods of dirt on the roots and weighed the entire mess still wet.
The neighbor's two plants would have rendered 2-4 ounces of cured pot... less than is needed to get a conviction for "intent to distribute." On the other hand, he was charged with possession of 8 pounds due to the officers' knowingly fraudulent collection methods.
The agents know how this stuff is processed for use, and to knowingly misrepresent to the courts that this guy had "8 pounds" and intended to "distribute" was clearly a felony on the part of the thus-purjored agents.
But, I guess that taking a dangerous criminal off of the streets is more important than those silly Laws, huh? Not how the law was designed to work, my friend.
;-/
In addition, it was pointed out that the marijuana was planted "in" ten acres of corn -- it may not have been ten acres of marijuana.
So be it. Maybe half of it was dirt. That leaves about 125 pounds of marijuana. Clearly a felony amount. Clearly an asset forfeiture case.
Nothing changes.