Is Medical Marijuana a More Frequent Target for Criminals?

[R.I.P. Overgrow]

What do you all think? Any business that has cash on hand is a target for robberies. There are a lot of pro legalization comments in the replies though.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100319...jb3JkaW9uX3Vfc19uZXdzBHNsawNtZWRpY2FsbWFyaWo-

 

[Tylor Durden]

it's a more frequent target for journalists...

it's a more frequent target for journalists...

Any MM related incident makes the front pages..oooohhh noooo..legal weed?

A drunk running into a schoolbus in the mid afternoon gets buried in the "local news links" while this one is blaring on all fronts.

go figure

oh I just did....

Media is in BIG trouble these days and every "hit" ( hahah) they get counts to ad revenue..so of course a negative story on MM biz draws ten thousand hits a second.

the second rule of fight club....

 

[Rednick]

Crime = Propaganda = Headlines = A fucking Journalism drop-out.

The reporter is just as guilty for not being the conduit between the people and society.

I know they are vain, but this is seriously good 'Investigative Journalism', most of the time.
http://current.com/vanguard-journalism/

Not, Barba WalWals.

Oh, and Colorado has very liberal gun laws, so I am not sure what state you are talking about. I know that most hippies don't get good Karma with firearms around, but I also know that there is nothing conflicting in this state with packing with your meds, under constitutional guidelines and Colorado Revised Statutes (CRS).
Butmember, like alcohol, you cannot be impaired while exercising your CCW rights.
At the same time, we aren't selling Crack!

 

[Duckmang]

From what I have heard in CO, that banks are subject to more robberies than dispensaries. Dispensaries are on par with other regular pharmacies for robberies, which makes sense.

 

[B. Friendly]

maybe but all yahoo does is talk shit. Yahoo may sound hip but it is run by conservative old men. All their media is crap.
Yahoo just likes to stir the pot, not our pot.

 

[FRIENDinDEED]

with all of what this report is relaying it just seems to be a stronger argument for legalization. cannabis is still something that is deemed as "blackmarket" just as alcohol was.

now seeing where we are with alcohol as a society is the obvious template for where we need to be with cannabis. people are always gonna want to steal anything with a "special/specific" value and a high priced market.

i mean who ever, after all this time, has heard of someones liquor cabinet or bar being robbed? imagine a society where everyone has a small grow, then the robber wouldnt know who to rob/steal from. do you think a person is gonna take the risk of breaking into a home and the grower is new and growing weak bagseed at that? too many times of that and it wont be worth it because we all know " a good strain does not a good grower make"

and the justice system knows full well how all this does/is going to go down, they have and know the stats on past items and trends. once the market value, need/want is taken away from a certain item then its value is lost then it becomes not "not worth stealing" cause in the long run what is that thief get for it?

people dyin, getting attacked, property destroyed and for what? its retarded now, just legalize it, put a tax on it and call it a day, sheesh.

 

[windsoft]

I think about all the times I and others got robbed, ripped, and just dicked around by street thugs. Whatever happens with it legal is a joke compared to illegal.

 

[texsativa]

What do you all think? Any business that has cash on hand is a target for robberies.

Well, there ya go.

 

[Dank_Indicas]

It's simple don't fucking tell anyone your growing The End:

 

[HerbGlaze]

Its a big problem in the small town I live in, nearly every person who has a script like myself has to watch out for people trespassing, and breaking and entering.
Just a while ago these fools that dressed up like narcotic agents went to a local caregivers house tied three patients up and stole cash and a bunch of processed medicine.
One of the dudes got untied and chased them down and rammed the burglars vehicle, the passenger that was involved in the burglary died. Just puts a bad name on patients.

 

[WeedSavesLives]

I hate drug dealers! (I want a bumper sticker says that). Why do people think it's a gold rush in California, they aren't coming here to heal their ailments (few exceptions such as myself). There here for money and piles of pot to lay in, I see them everyday everywhere.

Only reason for this drug prohibition, it causes the crime, not marijuana, medical or not.

 

[alflud]

Its a big problem in the small town I live in, nearly every person who has a script like myself has to watch out for people trespassing, and breaking and entering.
Just a while ago these fools that dressed up like narcotic agents went to a local caregivers house tied three patients up and stole cash and a bunch of processed medicine.
One of the dudes got untied and chased them down and rammed the burglars vehicle, the passenger that was involved in the burglary died. Just puts a bad name on patients.

I fail to understand how this puts a bad name on patients. What do you mean? The patients didn't do anything, did they? They got tied up, had their weed stolen and tried to get their stuff back when they were afforded the opportunity. How do they get a bad name here? According to what you wrote the guy who followed the thieves and rammed them is a hero.

But anyway, yeah, I think dispensaries would be an easy target for thieves. Not only do they have a chance of scoring some cash but the product is also worth it's fair share on the street. If I was going to open up a dispensary I'd be sure to install some security screens and a couple of panic buttons for sure. I'd run it much like a bank. Better to be safe rather than sorry. It's a pity they can't make one-way bullet-proof glass like they can make one-way mirrors Their bullets can't get through from that side but yours can from this side lol. That would make things rather safe I would say.

 

[BiG H3rB Tr3E]

I can promise you its harder to rob my dispensary then it is to rob the bank down the street from me....