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7 killed in shooting at illegal marijuana grow operation in Riverside [CA] County, Sheriff’s Dept. says
ktla ^ | 09/08/2020 | by: Tony Kurzweil

Posted on 09/08/2020 2:23:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Deputies responded to an assault with a deadly weapon call in the 45000 block of Highway 371 just after 12:30 a.m. Monday...

A woman suffering from multiple gunshot wounds was found at the location and transported by paramedics to a local hospital for treatment...was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

A search of the property revealed six additional victims, all suffering from gunshot wounds. All six of those victims also died from their wounds...

Investigators say evidence at the location indicated it was being used as an illegal marijuana growing facility.

More than 1,000 pounds of marijuana and several hundred marijuana plants were found at the location.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: 7killed; california; cannabis; growoperation; marijuana; pot; riverside; shooting; tonykurzweil; wod
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To: mlo
It is so heavily regulated and taxed that it's really only quasi-legal. There's still lots of illegal activity.

Not to mention that it's still illegal in most states - a major market for unlicensed grows.

41 posted on 09/08/2020 3:36:39 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: ClearCase_guy
If they’d legalize the stuff we wouldn’t have these victimless crimes. Or something.

It isn't "legalized" if you have to jump through so many hoops that the "legal" stuff costs 300 bucks an ounce plus your personal info at a dispensary. There's a continuum between illegal and legal. A famous Supreme Court Justice pointed out that "the ability to tax is the ability to destroy." Most legal pot is taxed so heavily that its still profitable to undercut it with illegal grows.

In contrast, alcohol, even with its heavy taxes, is cheap enough that under-the-radar moonshine isn't all that economically viable.

42 posted on 09/08/2020 3:42:13 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Just think of how much the government can make if they legalize meth and heroin! That was the libertarian argument forever until now it’s gotten to the point they want zero restrictions of their drugs at all. Most probably don’t even want an age limit, cause that’ll cause ‘illegal activity’.


43 posted on 09/08/2020 3:49:04 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: BenLurkin

Isn’t there a FReeper in the neighborhood over that way.

Tierras slim or hot tobasco?


44 posted on 09/08/2020 4:10:11 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Plugs/Jugs 2020....Joe/Ho 2020...)
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To: BenLurkin

Oops, I was thinking of Arizona. This is in Cali.


45 posted on 09/08/2020 4:11:29 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Plugs/Jugs 2020....Joe/Ho 2020...)
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To: BenLurkin

Legalization made things far worse, and those states are exporting other serious problems besides dope (e.g., radical leftism).


46 posted on 09/08/2020 4:31:24 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“The idea was that the legalization would change things.”

I thought the primary idea was to obtain more tax dollars.


47 posted on 09/08/2020 4:36:23 PM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: familyop
Legalization made things far worse

OK, Chicken LIttle.

48 posted on 09/08/2020 4:37:57 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree

9 Sept: ABC: With 7 dead, California pot ranch is tied to organized crime
Authorities say an illegal marijuana growing operation where seven people were fatally shot in a small, rural Southern California town had the markings of organized crime
By ELLIOT SPAGAT and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press
All seven victims and witnesses were Laotian, Bianco said. Six people were found dead on the property, and a woman who was shot there died later at a hospital...

Laotian involvement in illegal marijuana harvesting has grown over the last decade in California’s agricultural heartland. People from the relatively small community account for much of the pot growing in backyards and on prime farmland.
Large cannabis growing operations typically have hundreds of thousands of dollars of product at each site, making them attractive targets for criminals.
“That’s why the violence becomes worse and worse,” Kiloh said.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fatally-shot-illegal-california-marijuana-growing-site-72877189


49 posted on 09/08/2020 8:52:21 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: easternsky

nope, not legal growers. There’s a shortage of pot in RC because there’s no small legal growers left in the county and the county isn’t issuing new permits. It’s Cartels moved north of the border and taking territory just like they did back home. All their crop is either street-sales or exported to other states. Cartels don’t care about human life or ‘equal opportunity’.


50 posted on 09/08/2020 8:59:48 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: Osage Orange

500 or 1000 grams typically in each container from a producer. About as big as a large beercan. With each gram wholesaling $10-20/gram per depending on quality. So each large “beer” is worth about $10k wholesale. Retail is worth easily $20-30k

I’m talking the nearly pure THC oil which is much denser and more valuable than raw flower. A pound of flower is as big as a pillow and wholesales for $1000-2000


51 posted on 09/09/2020 8:05:08 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: varyouga

My son made me some CBD hashish. He is growing hemp smokable bud on his state permit. I’m working him to convert the rest of the crop to hemp oil for soap making.


52 posted on 09/09/2020 8:41:00 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: MAGAthon
[familyop:] Legalization made things far worse

OK, Chicken Little.

9 Sept: ABC: With 7 dead, California pot ranch is tied to organized crime [...]

No evidence there that legalization made things far worse; before legalization, organized crime were the ONLY ones growing commercial quantities of pot.

53 posted on 09/09/2020 11:12:15 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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