A day's arduous digging and panning for gold dust typically yields about half a gramme (worth $20), though with luck you could get maybe 5 grammes (worth $200), or with no luck, nothing.
A government spokesman said a box packed with 340 grammes of the drug, valued at €40,000 (£33,470), was seized in January at the international airport in the eastern city of Leipzig.
In doing so, they uncovered a sophisticated smuggling operation, with automatic weapons, 200 grammes of dynamite, hand grenades and ammunition concealed in the car's bodywork, according to Bavarian public radio.
A pistol was found under the engine hood and the car was then taken apart to reveal a sophisticated smuggling operation with automatic weapons, 200 grammes of TNT, hand grenades and ammunition carefully concealed in the car's bodywork, according to Bavarian public radio.
A few hundred grammes – a nice handful, a punnet – combined with a bottle of good gin makes a magnificent and nearly forgotten drink: raspberry gin.
"I don't even understand what is going on with these people, that are doing, you know, twenty grammes of mephedrone in a single night, because it's only going to result in misery.
As the boom weighs just 300 grammes a metre, the operation could be carried out by a small boat with just two operators (as illustrated below).
Referring to cases of six recent offenders similarly convicted under the Misuse of Drugs Act, Shanmugam's lawyer drew attention to the fact that those offenders had imported more than 700 grammes of cannabis, an offence which attracted the death penalty, but were eventually charged with possessing less than 500 grammes of cannabis which resulted only in a jail sentence.
A few grammes too much can kill.
