“Colorado pot shops likely targets of cartels”
Yea, the DEA, FBI and every other federal agency.
Those shops are no better than the dirty dark street corner pushers and the dopers frequenting them are the same losers as the pusher’s customers.
Leno hit home the other evening when he commented on the coming shortage of Pot in Colorado,
He just said it was another case of once the Government puts its hands on something, it screws it up...
An acquaintance reminded me of the old
“Let the US Fed Govt take over the Sahara Desert and in 10 years there will be a sand shortage” theorty.
Not a surprise. Soon they will own the state - those parts of it which don’t secede that is.
“Federal legalization would allow an interstate market for these products and their full commercialization”
Interstate market for pot but not for health insurance.
Nope, nothing to see here.
Impossible.
I was told (repeatedly) by a dope fiend that legalized drugs would make them cheap and eliminate the criminal drug gangs.
From Forbes:
One black-market dealer tells The Pueblo Chieftan he sells high-quality marijuana for $225 to $300 an ounce, compared to $400 or more charged by state-licensed stores. “People will get real tired of paying the taxes real fast,” he says. “When you can buy an ounce from me for $225 to $300, the state adds as much as $90 just for the tax.”
Sounds like the Mafia and they way they did (and do) business. Some things never change
if legal pot is $400 an ounce only the fools will be buying it. The illeagal market will half that price and quickly.
I understand it is a cash and carry deal. Banks do not want to touch it with CC due to the Fed.
This should reduce the number of Bank robberies, Crooks go where the cash is.
Too many entrepreneurs.
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There’s too much legal money to be made for the Cartels to effectively move in. The phrase “the government hates competition” is operative here.
Sure the industry is going to be tested, but there’s already a cottage industry of paramilitary security companies providing Security and Cash Collections. Not to mention the lucrative pay off duty cops are making moonlighting as pot shop security.
You can bet those big shops will be pulling in 10’s of thousands a day and will pay through the nose to keep it clean.
You don't say.
Sounds like a great series can come of this!
Taking over a trade once ruled by drug cartels and turning it into an all-cash business could make pot shops prime targets for extortion, black-market competition and robbery. One veteran border narcotics agent told FoxNews.com Colorado’s legal pot industry will find it hard to keep the criminals from horning in on a lucrative business they once controlled.
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No Obama, Sherlock.
I’ve long said that legal marijuana will only add to our problems. There used to be a pro-dope troll (Just say no to Nannies) who would argue for days and days that pot should be legal.
I would ask him if he thought a trillion dollar industry (illegal cartels) would simply go away if drugs were legalized. Naturally he would not answer.