Posted on 12/04/2021 8:08:27 AM PST by mylife
A spate of violent robberies targeting marijuana businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area last month have thrown into question the survival of several small businesses, with the combined losses of those operators estimated to be at least $5 million.
The crimes ranged from break-ins that resulted in minor damage to, in some instances, wild gunfights between criminals and security guards, according to media reports and sources.
At least one person was shot, and a scandal has emerged over San Francisco police officers apparently looking on while burglars made off with cannabis products from a store they’d broken into.
The prime takeaway from the most recent rash of thefts and vandalizations, insiders said, is the fragility of the companies targeted and the fact that they’re targeted with disturbing regularity by criminals looking to make an easy buck.
“Cannabis businesses are being robbed year-round, but no one is talking about it,” said Tucky Blunt, the owner of Oakland cannabis shop Blunts and Moore, which was one of the businesses hit last month.
“I was safer, and had more money, (selling) on the street, illegally.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mjbizdaily.com ...
Once you decriminalize a crime, eventually you get devoured by the monster you helped create.
They voted for all of this.
Wholly predictable.
It’s called Third Worldization!:
It’s the utter breakdown of the law, and the ability of the rich within such a feudal society to find ways to avoid the violent chaos.
Neistat was right in identifying a pandemic of crime in Los Angeles as Third Worldization.
The predictable role of the smug, indifferent Third World rich, who master ignoring – and navigating around – the misery of others in their midst.
In a medieval-type society of two rather than three classes, the rich in walled estates rarely worry that much about thievery. Crime is written off as an intramural problem of the poor, especially when the middle class is in decline or nonexistent.
Violent crime is now soaring in America. But two things are different about America’s new criminality.
• One is the virtual impunity of it. Thieves now brazenly swarm a store, ransack, steal, and flee with the merchandise without worry of arrest.
• • Second, the Left often justifies crime as a sort of righteous payback against a supposedly exploitative system.
So, the architect of the so-called 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, preened of the riotous destruction of property during the summer of 2020:
“Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”
Third Worldization reflects the asymmetry of law enforcement. Ideology and money, not the law, adjudicate who gets arrested and tried, and who does not.
The above statememnts excerpted from: Victor Davis Hanson’s: “Third-Worldizing America
Nation & State” ^ | 12-4-2021 | Victor Davis Hanson
https://www.nationandstate.com/2021/12/04/victor-davis-hanson-third-worldizing-america/
So, Forget It, Jake! Relax! It’s Now, Not Your Town!
You voted for this B$!!! Even, If you didn’t, it doesn’t matter! Your vote has not counted nor been counted for decades, if ever.
Like robbing a liquor store?
Californian problems.....bad thing is that people will flee to Arizona, Nevada and Texas.
I like the tag!
Jeeves delivers my $600 single malt scotch, no need to get it at the ruffian store.
You would think that the government would be putting out the National Guard with shoot to kill orders on this. That’s untaxed product going out the doors.
Thanks! I hate them myself!
I find this mildly amusing.
“I was safer, and had more money, (selling) on the street, illegally.”
I’ve heard a lot of people say that, actually. One guy said he just started his “legal weed” business - a hassle because taxes and regulations - because it made it that much easier to sell the illegal.
Decriminalization isn’t the answer: It’s just a scam to get the government involved in selling dope. At this point, I doubt whether making weed completely legal - to grow, buy, sell, distribute, roll in, etc - would be the answer because the criminal/gangster element is now so entrenched.
Why go to the pot store (usually located in seedy neighborhoods) when you can have weed delivered to your home quickly and at a cheaper price than the clubs?
A pot club is a robbery waiting to happen.
Look at a $7 pack of cigarettes’, $6.50 of that is gubmint tax
If you grow your own, you must pay tax...
Keep the larceny under a $grand a pop and you’re golden.
“New rash of California marijuana robberies threaten survival of businesses”
For some reason I find that funny.
Yer onto something... ;)
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