If they’d legalize the stuff we wouldn’t have these victimless crimes. Or something.
It is legal in California. Peaceful protestors from a neighboring illegal farms are suspected.
Cartel business.
I thought it was legal in California no?
If people wouldn’t do drugs and pay pimps for prostitutes we wouldn’t have drug related crime, dysfunctional drug dependent losers, and STD’s either.
Violence is common anywhere you have vast concentrations of valuables. Including pharmacies, banks, armored trucks and jewelry stores.
A single can of cannabis oil is worth $10k wholesale and vans will be transporting millions worth of product at any one time. And thanks to feds limiting banking for cannabis, millions in cash have to be transported back and stored.
Even fully licensed cannabis companies must have armed security for their facilities and vehicles. Not because it is cannabis but because there is always many millions on hand that violent criminals want to steal. Partially due to the feds making cannabis bank transfers illegal.
....there’s a voter fraud lesson here somewhere, too.
From the excerpt: "Investigators say evidence at the location indicated it was being used as an illegal marijuana growing facility."
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.