I was thinking that Looty had been mysteriously absent from the events of the last two weeks....
Posted on 06/11/2020 11:04:55 PM PDT by Morgana
Cannabis shops that were broken into during the last weekend of May in the wave of civil unrest following the brutal killing of George Floyd are reeling from the financial toll. Though several have said they supported the protests, the burglaries and looting perpetrated by a number of individuals has left some business owners worried about whether their operations can survive.
Dispensaries were hit hard; Leafly reports that 43 businesses in California and Oregon were ransacked. Boston’s Pure Oasis — the first minority-owned adult-use dispensary on the East Coast — reportedly lost $100,000. Chicago’s Mission Dispensary South Shore was “mostly destroyed,” the company president wrote on Facebook.
Several Los Angeles area dispensaries were vandalized during the demonstrations. Videos on social media show people climbing over security gates to break into Cookies Melrose, a popular pot shop in Los Angeles co-owned by rapper and weed entrepreneur Berner.
Cypress Hill’s B-Real reported a robbery at his San Francisco dispensary Dr. Greenthumb’s, and called for peaceful protest on Twitter, saying that “rioting, looting and burning down business… during a pandemic isn’t going to make the change needed.” The national cannabis dispensary chain MedMen temporarily closed down all of its locations after several of its Los Angeles stores were cleaned out.
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Have to say oh well
As if you couldn’t foresee this coming
Actually I’m shocked, I tell you shocked. They did not hit this first? That is strange.
I was thinking that Looty had been mysteriously absent from the events of the last two weeks....
ping
Good riddance. Funny that they support BLM and thus protest the police, yet at the end of the article, state they won’t reopen until the police can protect them!
I think the river is a flooded street.
Too busy getting tos and liquor
Dave’s not here, man.
Cannabis dispensaries are being looted, but stores that sell work boots are safe. Who would have guessed that the arsonists and looters would have those preferences?
I know that’s a long running joke, but in Minneapolis they damaged at least one shoe store in an attempt to enter and loot before they were run off by police.
Give them ALL the drugs they want! Fentanyl, heroin, LSD, MDMA, pot, and alcohol for everyone one of those little bastards!
Horrifying ...
:)
New documentary coming out about the rioters/looters hitting the “weed dispensaries”. It will be entitled “Up In Smoke, Part II”.
Up in Smoke!
Oh, wait.....
face uncertain future, funny
It’s up in smoke.
Doing a search for
“picture of that “looter guy” from Hurricane Katrina? The one where he’s carrying beer in the river?”
on google images brings it up.
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