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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: SurReality]
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i actually thought it was just a video with nothing to really copy 
i'm well aware of the rules 
DENVER - Police are trying to identify two young boys who stole $16,000 worth of medical marijuana plants from a local dispensary.
Video images viewed by 9Wants to Know show two kids, who appear to be around the age of 12, inside the Good Meds Network medical cannabis shop near 6th Avenue and Interstate 25.
The burglary occurred on July 21. Police sent out a Crime Stoppers alert about this case on Thursday hoping someone knows about the crime.
Denver police have asked 9News not to broadcast or publish the photos out of fear the two children could be targeted by violent drug dealers.
"Obviously we're concerned here," said Denver Police spokesperson Sonny Jackson. "We're not sure what they're going to do with it or who they're going to contact. This is a situation where we want to find out where these kids are for their safety, as much as anything."
The burglary occurred around 8 p.m., according to time-stamps on the video images.
It's unknown how the two boys entered the shop, but according to police, they remained in the building for 25 minutes before making off with $16,000 worth of marijuana.
A woman who answered the phone at the dispensary claimed to be a media spokesperson for the company. She declined to comment, but indicated the shop was actively working on its security system.
If you have any information on this case, you are asked to call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP. You can remain anonymous and information leading to an arrest and conviction could result in a monetary award.
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: SurReality]
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Did they happen to steal any grills before they were caught? Sounds like a case for the eyes of a shit hawk. 
And in case you kids didn't realize how much money you were sitting on and did plan on just smoking it the paper made it pretty clear for you. $16,000 i think these kids just got started off on a pretty good career startup.
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: SurReality]
#18648513 - 08/02/13 09:39 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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"At least it's not during the school year, so that'll make the distribution of the stuff a little bit tougher for the kids."
Riiiiiiiiiight...
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I can only imagine what shenanigans these kids are up to now 
I wish I had that much buds
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: SurReality]
#18648834 - 08/02/13 11:07 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Some one is making some bho as we speak.
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: Sham87]
#18649095 - 08/02/13 12:27 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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lol yea i'm sure they are going to have a good summer, even if they get busted it will probably be the best time they have until they move out of the rents place...
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: Sham87]
#18649113 - 08/02/13 12:31 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hopefully they'll chill down a little bit while playing their Black Ops...
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: IoRhinz] 1
#18649856 - 08/02/13 03:02 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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As someone whos grown MMJ, and knows all the stresses of working as a grower or dispensary owner, I have to say fuck these kids. Degenerate youth scumbags. They are lucky their identities arent being released. 16K worth of MMJ, in whole sale could be an entire harvest worth of bud. Juvie will be the easy way out. A debt collector sent by anyone who owned or grew the bud is what they should fear.
This kinda bullshit is why growing/working for a dispensary is not worth it.
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lol what? if you're a grower, or any sort of manufacturer/supplier you should be getting paid immediately when you distribute to a retailer. thus the dispensary should be taking the loss, and rightfully so if their store can be broken into by children.
if you are a business with that much merchandise in stock you should have high security, it doesn't matter if they stole 16k worth of jewelry, guns, or medical bud. the fault is on the business.
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: SurReality]
#18650131 - 08/02/13 03:45 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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They should have been tight on security with some heavy guns
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: Ganja420Boy] 1
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Id like to chime in and say I agree with sureality the business owner should have had better security. Abstrakt your implying that a LEGAL business owner would resort to paid muscle to rough up a bunch of punks kids, is the reason law enforcement and the citizens of the US may deplore medical cannabis. You're so rapped up in your "I'm a drug dealer. Its me against everyone else."mindset, that you fail to realize that any legitimate and mature business owner is smart enough to take the legal path. Also these are just kids and if you did not know already assaulting a minor is a serious offense Mr. Marijuana grower. Im not talking about all growers and dispensaries just abstrakts ignorant comment
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I'm one who believes that if you get robbed(violent or not) its the targets fault for letting their guard down or not raising it enough. Its a chess game that should be played accordingly. That's how I was taught growing up.
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: Rexter]
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yea that is how i feel about the matter. if you are going to have a lot of valuable things you can't settle with the cheapest rent and zero security...
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: SurReality]
#18650420 - 08/02/13 04:45 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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As much as I disagree with the idea of stealing from a dispensary, which is just plain wrong. I'm pretty impressed that two 12 year olds could pull this shit off
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: Rexter]
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Rexter said: I'm one who believes that if you get robbed(violent or not) its the targets fault for letting their guard down or not raising it enough. Its a chess game that should be played accordingly. That's how I was taught growing up.
Eh I grew up around a lot of thieves, did some stealing myself. You can only defend yourself so much (very little), as far as the morality of the situation I think that depends on the context if there is such a thing as objective morality
To the guys knocking on their security, insurance is the best security. I've been to violin shops with millions of dollars worth of merchandise, they have locks on their doors and a solid insurance policy.
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Rexter said: I'm one who believes that if you get robbed(violent or not) its the targets fault for letting their guard down or not raising it enough. Its a chess game that should be played accordingly. That's how I was taught growing up.
You mean like it's the girls fault when she gets raped for being hot?
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: niteman]
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SurReality said: lol what? if you're a grower, or any sort of manufacturer/supplier you should be getting paid immediately when you distribute to a retailer. thus the dispensary should be taking the loss, and rightfully so if their store can be broken into by children.
if you are a business with that much merchandise in stock you should have high security, it doesn't matter if they stole 16k worth of jewelry, guns, or medical bud. the fault is on the business.
Do you not realize all CO dispensaries are required to grow 70% of all their product. And if you are contracted for growing to a dispensary, most dispensaries only pay a rubbish initial amount for your work, and the rest as they sell product. Not all, but most.
I want to kindly explain to you, that growers that are good, often do not own dispensaries, nor work with them much. Instead they take on patients to be a provider directly to and grow up to 6 plants per patient. They are directly competing with dispensaries for patients everyday. The relationship between growers and dispensaries is weird, and as tense as it is symbiotic.
Now I never owned a dispensary and only have done contracting work with a few because the way they conduct business.
In reality, this grower will be cut a huge loss, the dispensary will still make ends meat and be fine as long they can sell enough product that wasn't store grown to get by til their next harvest. So it cost the store 3-4 months of their profit, but the individual grower his income to live off of for that amount of time.
So really even if its the dispensary fault, they're just the lesser of two evils in this scenario. And your right the dispensary should have to compensate the grower, but if the grower didn't sign a crop insurance policy with the dispensary(and most wont)than they are S.O.L
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niteman said: Id like to chime in and say I agree with sureality the business owner should have had better security. Abstrakt your implying that a LEGAL business owner would resort to paid muscle to rough up a bunch of punks kids, is the reason law enforcement and the citizens of the US may deplore medical cannabis. You're so rapped up in your "I'm a drug dealer. Its me against everyone else."mindset, that you fail to realize that any legitimate and mature business owner is smart enough to take the legal path. Also these are just kids and if you did not know already assaulting a minor is a serious offense Mr. Marijuana grower. Im not talking about all growers and dispensaries just abstrakts ignorant comment
Id like to chime in and rip a new perspective through this veil of stupidity and lack of understanding your using to barrage me.
First off, The Dispensary wouldnt be the ones trying to find some muscle men, it would be the pissed off grower who is out 16 grand.
Do you realize, in humbolt county, the mecca of pot growing. People MURDER their grow partners for running off with anything more than the agreed upon split during harvest.
Isn't that some crazy irrational shit? Why would anyone do such a thing.. well lets see.
When you grow pot, in any amount, it becomes the most time and emotionally consuming thing from the moment those seeds pop out of the ground, til its in smoke able form. You get as emotionally attached to them as you do your pet dog, some even say their own kids. You spend countless hours of the day inspecting them, watering them, bending and super cropping them, regulating any temperature fluctuations. Not to count when you begin, all the intensive labor and start up cost of seeds, soil, nutes and lights. Unless you have a trust worthy person you cant go on vacations or anything. Your plants need you everyday. It eats up all your extended extra free time.
Its a sacrifice and investment with no guarantee of paying off, that myself and thousands of other people make just so people like YOU, the consumer, can get high. And the whole time were doing it, our partners fuck us over, the clubs and dispensaries fuck us over, local and especially Federal law enforcements fuck us over. Then you have petty thieves like these two dumb kids that get us from time to time. And all those hours of hard work and stressful days and nights we gave up alot to make sure we could grow the best possible, yield us nothing because some lazy POS chose to steal.
So to be honest it really is a "Me vs. Everyone else" situation. And you dont start off with this mentality growing pot, its after a few years of everything going wrong while growing that turns you into a cynical asshole. My reaction is tame compared to many growers I know. I know some who will shoot and kill a trespasser on sight in their garden, but wouldn't kill a fly else where. And while I dont agree with that view, It make me more sick some people see other's livelihood as an all you can smoke buffet. I personally lay down boards with nails all around my grows, even dug a few trenches that would easily break a leg and its only because Ive had to. Found a blood stained shoe print on one of the boards last fall after I was hit for 40 harvest ready plants. And since Ive never had so much as trace of rabbits visit my grows much less thieves.
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: Menalaus]
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Damn. How the fuck could they hide that much pot from their rents? I had a hard time hiding more then a dime bag when i was 15 lol.
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Thank you for supporting my point abstrakt. I was referring to the grower. The thing is any rational, coolheaded, and lets add intelligent, because lets face it not everyone who grows mj is sharp as a tack, would see that hiring someone to assault anyone(especially children) over marijuana would be a big mistake and probably their last. Putting aside the fact that like someone already said the grower is normally paid upfront and therefore would not suffer from this type of incident, one can only logically assume that the possible legal ramifications would far outweigh the perceived benefits of playing mafia. Consider the fact that even if you get off you will still be racked in well over 16 grand in legal fees and you will undoubtedly have an arrest record if you didn't previously. You can say whatever you want I dont take issue with peoples ideas but your solution to the situation is laughable at best. If you owned a car dealership and someone stole a car from your lot would you hire thugs to beat them and possibly jeopardize your business image? If we go around acting like hardened criminals the Federal government will never see us as more than that. Marijuana is a harmless plant. It gives relief to people that need it. Whenever people put a price on something so pure and beneficial they write it off as nothing more than a way to stuff their pockets. Many of the people cashing in on the "medical marijuana" surge recently are nothing more than money hungry capitalist who peddle relief to all those who can afford it. Modern day snake oil salesmen. Marijuana should be legal. Not decriminalized and not just for medical use. 100 percent legal. We shouldnt restrict such a beneficial plant at all. I detest the dispensaries as much as any other shameless money whores. They are only in it to make a buck and frankly dont care about the effect on the surrounding community or anything else for that matter. I may not be the most intelligent person on the planet but I know that until everyone is able to grow pot In their own backyard we have not won. It dissapoints me that people have became complacent and greedy. They are so interested inthe easy money that they no longer fight for what they once believed was right. The money changed them from caring individuals who stood up for what they believed in to another cog in the greed machine. The people who try to seem so spiritual or professional like they are doctors or wise men are just compensating for the fact that they know deep down they are sellouts. Lets face it you grow weed. Thats it and it isnt theoretical physics it is basic gardening. You may think you are some genius botanist who will change the world, hell it may happen, but likely you are just another gardener doing what gardeners have done for a long long time. Get over yourselves and realize that you are hindering the process. Screw tax money. Screw limits. It is a plant people. People need to lose the ego and do what is best for everyone not just the ones that stand to profit. If you think you can have true respect for something you see as money you are wrong. The only thing people like that respect is the dollar signs. Please forgive me for being so long winded and I am not condemning all growers or dispensaries I am only stating what should be obvious. If we do not change the way we think about these things that we call "drugs" we will continue to abuse others I the process of our misunderstanding.
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niteman said: Thank you for supporting my point abstrakt. I was referring to the grower. The thing is any rational, coolheaded, and lets add intelligent, because lets face it not everyone who grows mj is sharp as a tack, would see that hiring someone to assault anyone(especially children) over marijuana would be a big mistake and probably their last. Putting aside the fact that like someone already said the grower is normally paid upfront and therefore would not suffer from this type of incident, one can only logically assume that the possible legal ramifications would far outweigh the perceived benefits of playing mafia. Consider the fact that even if you get off you will still be racked in well over 16 grand in legal fees and you will undoubtedly have an arrest record if you didn't previously. You can say whatever you want I dont take issue with peoples ideas but your solution to the situation is laughable at best. If you owned a car dealership and someone stole a car from your lot would you hire thugs to beat them and possibly jeopardize your business image? If we go around acting like hardened criminals the Federal government will never see us as more than that. Marijuana is a harmless plant. It gives relief to people that need it. Whenever people put a price on something so pure and beneficial they write it off as nothing more than a way to stuff their pockets. Many of the people cashing in on the "medical marijuana" surge recently are nothing more than money hungry capitalist who peddle relief to all those who can afford it. Modern day snake oil salesmen. Marijuana should be legal. Not decriminalized and not just for medical use. 100 percent legal. We shouldnt restrict such a beneficial plant at all. I detest the dispensaries as much as any other shameless money whores. They are only in it to make a buck and frankly dont care about the effect on the surrounding community or anything else for that matter. I may not be the most intelligent person on the planet but I know that until everyone is able to grow pot In their own backyard we have not won. It dissapoints me that people have became complacent and greedy. They are so interested inthe easy money that they no longer fight for what they once believed was right. The money changed them from caring individuals who stood up for what they believed in to another cog in the greed machine. The people who try to seem so spiritual or professional like they are doctors or wise men are just compensating for the fact that they know deep down they are sellouts. Lets face it you grow weed. Thats it and it isnt theoretical physics it is basic gardening. You may think you are some genius botanist who will change the world, hell it may happen, but likely you are just another gardener doing what gardeners have done for a long long time. Get over yourselves and realize that you are hindering the process. Screw tax money. Screw limits. It is a plant people. People need to lose the ego and do what is best for everyone not just the ones that stand to profit. If you think you can have true respect for something you see as money you are wrong. The only thing people like that respect is the dollar signs. Please forgive me for being so long winded and I am not condemning all growers or dispensaries I am only stating what should be obvious. If we do not change the way we think about these things that we call "drugs" we will continue to abuse others I the process of our misunderstanding.
Well No offense to you or Surreality, but I actually have been in this business of growing for almost 10 years and only a year in a medical state. Growers contracted for dispensaries as the one in OP are usually not paid what the entire grow is worth upfront. THIIIISSS IS A FACT FROM MY FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE.
And you sound like your just now dabbling in this culture. My ego has nothing to do with this. Your really just rambling and putting words in my mouth.
But let me be very real. In the Kentucky Appalachians, where most people live under poverty level and no real jobs exist. Many grow pot to keep food in their fridge along side raising live stock and doing what ever they can to support themselves. These people live off almost nothing and have almost nothing. And some of them were the most friendly and genuine people Ive ever met. But if you walked on their plantations, and some how didnt fall prey to a boobies trap. If you were spotted you would be shot, killed and everything but your teeth would be fed to the hogs. This is simply how it is there. Your taking peoples ability to survive in some cases. If you cant accept that your living in fantasy land.
The chance of violent altercations happening in a Medical State is little to none because in most cases you can go to the police and conduct business. Outside of a medical state and it is the wild wild west. These kids will face no retribution because of their age. If they were older they might have ended up getting "taught a lesson". If they did this to some guy growing out of his basement in a state where all forms of pot growing/use are illegal. The grower would have two choices, either let it go.. Or fuck their day up. And dude I know more pot growers than anyone Ive met. Most of the ones I know in non MMJ states never "just let it go"..
And you talk about not putting a price on medicine. Well what you dont realize is, us growers understand that more than you. Thats one reason they tend to violently re-act when some one steals a whole crop. If they were growing for their own medical condition or say a friend who has terminal cancer, and lose their crop. They lose their medicine, which for some people can mean losing a life. Most growers with any shred of integrity will not charge a sick person who needs it more than anything it cost to produce it. And thats literally dirt cheap. I charge my sick patients nothing at all. And that puts me out of pounds out of pocket in between every harvest. How ever, 80%+ of the people who buy from me despite having a medical card do not need it. They're abusing a very wide loop hole to get high. If their over 21 I dont have to even see it. These people are charged cash for pot their using as recreational so I dont have to charge my actual clients that absolutely cant go a day with out it. And thats how most growers Ive met here work. And it should be that way. We all want to help those that need it most, out of hearts, but we all have ourselves to take care of, some with full families to support.
And one more thing, I admire your point of view. Sounds like me when I was younger. But its just not the world we live in. Your heads in the right place as unrealistic as it is.. Who knows, hopefully the rest of the world will catch up with you. Us. Like minded thinkers in general. And then I can finally stop feeling like such a bitter asshole around people. Because most people unfortunately suck.
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i don't think you need to resort to violence. even with illegal products you can still have a civil business in a civil community without having to go to the police ever.
if you watch your back so that you don't get busted, or busted with volume. you should manage to not get robbed for your volume. and not need to act like a thug.
you only need to resort to violence if someone brings violence upon you, say la vi
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SurReality said: the fault is on the business.
youre blaming the victim for being robbed?
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: SurReality]
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SurReality said: i don't think you need to resort to violence. even with illegal products you can still have a civil business in a civil community without having to go to the police ever.
if you watch your back so that you don't get busted, or busted with volume. you should manage to not get robbed for your volume. and not need to act like a thug.
you only need to resort to violence if someone brings violence upon you, say la vi
While I agree. Again its just not the world we live in. I did some digging around. There was actually a grower who shot and killed someone in the midst of stealing their harvest in Northern California, and he was let off scott free because he was lawfully protecting his property. That will set a precedent for other growers to go ahead and do the same.
As long as pot is worth as much as it is. And people are willing to steal it. People will unfortunately die over it, medical state or not.
Im not violent, I would never shoot someone over pot. But after being robbed I set my garden up with game motion sensor cameras, boards with lots of nails through them flipped upside down, and a two foot trench around the garden meant to snap an ankle. Someone came into the garden halfway through my first grow this year, and stepped on a board and since hasn't been back.
Serves them right, for trespassing in my garden, in my own backyard while Im dead asleep in my house. This isn't something I hatched an idea to do, this was something recommended by the local outdoor growers here. Turns out most of them do something similar. It deters thieves and we dont have to resort to violence ourselves. Were not thugs, and were not trying to be the Marijuana Mafia or some crap, it's how we react to society thinking were defenseless hippies growing fields of pot for the taking. And we grow by volume for a lot of reasons. The main one is a simple agricultural golden rule. Plant more than you expect to harvest because you will lose some, if not many in any unfortunate event. Some people such as cancer patients will go through a pound or more a month. Then because outdoor and greenhouse bud sells for significantly less and is harder to sell, most of the outdoor growers are making concentrates for wholesale and not selling much of it in flower form.
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well if the guy shot the person while being robbed, it sounds like he had security unlike the dispensary. nothing wrong with protecting your property, that is a different issue.
what does that have to do with a grower going after product that his customer (the dispensary) lost?
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Yeah I meant no disrespect I think we just sorta got our wires crossed. I agree with you that many people who are getting MMJ do not truly need it (at least in a medical sense) and its not like the pharmaceutical companies are lining up to give away free meds. I also understand why people growing MJ in illegal states would have different ways of handling issues. You cant solve issues legally so you have to take matters into your own hands. I may not know all of the ins and outs of the legal side of the business but I sure know about the shady side. It just dissapoints me that a few bad apples are giving the media and authority figures ammunition for the crackdown guns in MMJ states.
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: niteman]
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niteman said: It just dissapoints me that a few bad apples are giving the media and authority figures ammunition for the crackdown guns in MMJ states.
Amen, you and me both brother.
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Vitalux
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: SurReality]
#18656202 - 08/03/13 09:16 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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I tell you ....if my son robbed a marijuana dispensary ...I would confiscate his marijuana and make him go to the store and buy me some rolling papers for punishment.
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SurReality
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: Vitalux]
#18656252 - 08/03/13 09:32 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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lol i don't think 12 year olds are allowed to buy rolling papers
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dokunai
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: SurReality]
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I'd be willing to bet a lot of people around this age rob liquor stores and homes and other businesses and it doesn't make these types of headlines. But, because this involves the evil of marijuana, we have to have a special discussion about it and give prohibtionist politicians and lobbyists for drug testing companies a chance to hawk their wares.
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SurReality
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: dokunai]
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lol i'm pretty sure if preteens robbed a business for over a thousands dollars worth of merchandise it would make headlines. that takes some skill or a crappy business.
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Vitalux
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: SurReality]
#18657596 - 08/04/13 07:28 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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SurReality said: lol i'm pretty sure if preteens robbed a business for over a thousands dollars worth of merchandise it would make headlines. that takes some skill or a crappy business.
the wild part is that we are talking about a plant here and the value that is put on it is kind of dumb.
I can easily go out in my back yard ( which is just a regular back yard in a subdivision) and grow about 20 plants in the summer time and produce probably close to 10 pounds of budd ,and a few pounds of leaf.
Now in my mind, the budd and leaf has about the same value as a tomato plant or any other plant in my garden.
The police will say, he has 10 pounds x $3000/lb = $30 000 worth of pot growing in his yard. But trying to ever get that much money for growing pot is a bit far fetched.
As far as I am concerned if they totally made marijuana legal, the price would plummet to about $160 per pound.
The average ounce of weed would probably be about $10 or less.
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Menalaus
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: Vitalux]
#18657607 - 08/04/13 07:32 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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I agree. Its easy to grow weed and done on a legal scale bud wouldn't be worth much more than cilantro
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Lord_McLovin
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Re: kids rob dispensary... [Re: Menalaus]
#18657895 - 08/04/13 09:09 AM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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That's exactly what they're trying to avoid: Cheap legal drugs.
Obviously mother nature is not acting according to their liking.
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