WW has spoken with owners or employees of 22 Portland-area dispensaries, each of which confirmed break-ins since late May. Many of the stores were hit multiple times. WW tallied 47 break-ins. That's a rate of one break-in every other night.
Three stores, according to owners, fell prey to armed robberies, including one in which employees were zip-tied and held at gunpoint.
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-Don in Oregon
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And before anybody gets all huffy abut my caption like last time I used it, I'm in full support of complete legalization (not regulation) of marijuana.
Buuuuut..... when the push was on for legalizing weed in California a few years ago, the big argument was that if it was legalized, pot crimes would go down because 'anybody could grow their own, so there's no need to steal it'. The dumb fucks don't realize that there's always somebody that's willing to let others do the work for them before swooping in for a rip-off.
