Posted on 04/01/2017 5:57:54 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
The population of Denver has been steadily growing over the past few years, but not enough of its new inhabitants want to work in the restaurant industry.
The reason? The higher-paying jobs are in weed, man.
New eateries are popping up all over Denver to meet the increased demand of residents and tourists, but restaurant owners claim they’re having a hard time filling their kitchens with able-bodied workers, Bloomberg reports.
“Our work force is being drained by the pot industry,” Denver restaurateur Bryan Dayton told the site.
“Enter the weed business, which pays $22 an hour with full benefits,” added Dayton. “You can come work in a kitchen for (me) for eight hours a day, in a hot kitchen. It’s a stressful life. Or you can go sort weed in a climate-controlled greenhouse. It’s a pretty obvious choice.”
So why don’t restaurant owners just pay a little more? Quite simply, the marijuana industry can generally afford to pay workers at various levels much higher wages, they argue.
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SW OR. It’s in the local papers, the fire department talks about it, it’s common knowledge. It’s not a mystery or secret.
Probably 90% of all grows are illegal, not permitted, many are using huge amounts of chemicals stupidly, going into streams which is illegal, it’s crazy. One recently fire was some outfit making dabs or whatever it’s called, freaking inferno, serious hazmat going on in many of these grow operations. Instead of burning all the slash they do whatever they do with solvents and whatever chemicals they use, to make the dabs, and then illegally dump whatever is left over. And on and on. I heard explosions the other day, sometimes the idiots burn it the solvents up for fun.
Car crashes went way up as well as break ins. It’s the wild west here. If you aren’t in SW OR then you probably wouldn’t have an idea about it. Call the cops - maybe someone will come in 45 or an hour, maybe.
Read my comment just above.... more murders, heroin and meth use way up too. The idea that if mj is legalized the “hard” drug use will go down is bulls***.
Idiots who voted to legalize it - a lot of them are sorry, I’ve seen letters to the editor etc. It stinks if you live next to a grow, there are strange cars going in and out, shady characters, bright grow lights on all night in some places. More slut prostitutes plying their trade obviously, etc. And this is a valley with about 14,000 residents at most.
Coos County. Most of my life. Wouldn’t blame legal weed. Sounds like tweekers serving the black market.
Applegate Valley?
I know what I’m talking about. Tweekers doing their usual, what’s really making it crazy is the mj growers. I know people like to think of mj as some kind of harmless thing, but it isn’t.
Since you’re from OR, you know about water rights. Many of these growers are stealing water from streams and creeks or the two rivers illegally. And runoff with toxic crap going back in. A lot of people are not happy about all this. I’ve lived here for 18 years.
I don’t really want to locate myself specifically.
Calaveras County, in California exactly the same way. It is sight to behold.
And Trinity and Siskyou. First/second hand reports. The idea that legalizing mj will everything better is another utopian idiocy.
It’s like making a huge pile of excrement and being surprised when it draws a lot of flies and other vermin. Even the die hard pro-legalizers are realizing it isn’t so great.
And then there’s the “trimmigrants”... like we need more homeless roving doper hippies and fringe humans.
It is a Horrific mess, unless it is right in your face you have no idea.
Are these state-licensed growers?
Are state-licensed grow operations causing these problems in your county?
County licensed, soon to be State
Last figures I heard, were about 10 licensed grows, pretty sure that’s in my valley. There are more than 100 growing ops, I really don’t know how many. So at the most 10% are actually legal.
I agree, that sounds bad.
They need to operate like a legitimate business or not operate at all.
It’ll never happen. There’s too much $$ involved. Corrupt county government.
A friend over the border in CA said even before the legalization law passed, since people knew it would, Russian and Bulgarian mafia and MX gangs were buying up huge tracts of land for mj growing. Already Hmong gangs grow tons in the mountains, stealing water, etc. No way any county gov is going to control any of this.
“claimed that marijuana dispensaries — which supply strong strains of pot and THC-infused edibles — are largely responsible for a 2 percent decline in alcohol sales at his restaurants, “
...snicker.....
BS. The article says no such thing. The marijuana industry pays more, capitalism at work.
Have a lot of hmong, but much is cartel really put it on the map,they know there is no way this little County can Police it
So is it the cartels or the licensed growers that are causing the problems?
Same here - the previous sheriff who was a good man (now we have a rotten one) told me personally that MX cartels were moving in big time. There are even warnings when hiking or going into national forest, watch out for gangs, traps and all that stuff.
People who live here know what it’s like. I doubt if all this stuff makes it into news in other places.
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