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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.