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Most stoners are generally fairly chill people, whether they are smoking weed legally sold in their state (it’s stilll illegal federally) or not, but when a group of would-be robbers bum-rushed a San Antonio cannabis dispensary in the wee hours of Saturday morning, they found the employee working the shop to be packing more than just his next bowl.

Police told the San Antonio Express-News they responded to a report of a shooting in progress shortly after 3:30 a.m. at the Purple Dragon Cannabis Dispensary. They said several people appear to have run into the shop to rob it when a 23-year-old employee of the store and one of the bandits, who was 24, exchanged gunfire, harshing everyone’s mellow. (OK, well the police didn’t actually say that last part.)

It was not clear who cleared leather first or squeezed off the initial shot, though it probably went down faster than your high-school pal Kenny bogarting the last hit off a roach. Apparently, weed steadies the hand along with calming the nerves, because both men were found lying in the store with multiple gunshot wounds. When the bullets began flying, the rest of the crooks scattered like witnesses to a mafia hit.

Both men were taken to the hospital with the employee last reported in stable condition and the criminal in critical shape. Police told the newspaper, two guns were found at the scene.

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103 COMMENTS

  1. You are free to do as you will (well generally).

    Just understand that just because you CAN do a thing, it doesn’t necessarily follow that you MUST do that thing. It’s just as true with weed as it is protesting at the capital with an openly carried AR15. Each choice carries with it certain consequences. But make no mistake, it absolutely IS your choice.

  2. OK, there were two guns found at the scene. I was wondering if maybe they shared a joint, then shared a gun. Guess not!

  3. Quit writing like a leftist!
    There is no legal weed sold in the US, period
    Section 844 in Title 21 of the U.S. Code says possession is a crime. So it’s illegal no matter where you are inside the entire United States.

    Just because some places don’t have local/state laws against (decriminalized at a local level) it does not make it legal.

    Using their logic and phrases is dangerous, as a gun writer you should know that.

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    • It is illegally federally, but it is defacto legal in the states that have legalized it as long as its not on federal land in the state. A federal crime the federal government will not prosecute by purposely allowing it to happen is defacto not a crime thus defacto legal.

    • “Just because some places don’t have local/state laws against… “

      Just because Congress won’t act to restore individual liberties doesn’t mean there’s no one looking out for the citizens.

      Joe Biden acts to pardon thousands of citizens guilty only of simple possession, Donald Trump sells pardons for $2 million a pop.

      “On October 6, 2022, President Biden issued a presidential proclamation that pardoned many federal and D.C. offenses for simple marijuana possession offenses. On December 22, 2023, President Biden issued another proclamation that expanded the relief provided by the original proclamation. The December 2023 proclamation adds to the list of pardoned offenses the following: offenses under federal law for attempted possession of marijuana; additional offenses under the D.C. Code for simple marijuana possession; and violations of certain sections of the Code of Federal Regulations involving simple marijuana possession and use. The December 2023 proclamation also extends the original proclamation by pardoning offenses for simple possession of marijuana in violation of federal law prior to December 22, 2023. Both the October 2022 and December 2023 proclamations apply only to federal offenses, including violations of the U.S. Code, the D.C. Code, and the Code of Federal Regulations.“

      https://www.justice.gov/pardon/presidential-proclamation-marijuana-possession

        • “Is this a high school“

          Given all the juvenile insults aimed at my comments, one would think this was high school…

      • an unlawful pardon. The president does not have the authority to do a mass pardon without naming specific individuals nor does he have the authority to pardon pre-crime.

        In other words, Biden once again acted contrary to the constitution and enacted his tyrannical ‘rule by fiat’.

        • On January 21, 1977 Jimmy Carter pardoned all the Vietnam era draft dodgers. Also, after the Civil War on December 25, 1868 President Johnson pardoned all Confederate combatants for treason against the United States. So blanket pardons that don’t name individuals are legal. If I was President I would pardon all individuals convicted of possession of magazines over 10rd and/or semi-auto modern sporting arms.

        • “Also, after the Civil War on December 25, 1868 President Johnson pardoned all Confederate combatants for treason against the United States“

          According to the wisdom of TTAG, that was a completely unlawful pardon, so we must agree.

          The Confederates were indeed traitors who took up arms against the United States and as such, their properties should’ve been confiscated at that point in time. Now that the pardon has been shown to be unlawful, it’s time to move in and take over all those southern properties forfeited by traitors against America.

          It doesn’t make any difference if their descendants now own those properties, just because an injustice is long-standing does not somehow make it all OK.
          And as the Good Book says “the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon their sons, even unto the third and fourth generations”.

          In the interest of justice, long delayed, we can award those seized properties to the descendants of the enslaved peoples, we could call it… Reparations, yeah, that’s the ticket!

        • Other than Gettysburg, almost all battles were in southern states. So it was actually the United States that took up arms against the Confederate States.
          By your logic, those who supported the Revolution were traitors, as they took up arms against Britain. The only difference there is that they won.

        • “By your logic… “

          Sorry, but your argument is built on a false premise:

          “So it was actually the United States that took up arms against the Confederate States“

          The confederacy started the Civil War, first by succession which was an unconstitutional action, then by firing upon Fort Sumter, a federal fort owned by the United States of America, not South Carolina.

          As a matter of historical fact, just like imperial Japan, the confederacy attacked American citizens serving their country without a declaration of war, Jefferson Davis was no better than Tojo.

        • succession???

          Probably meant SECESSION but WTF is a little misuse of a word to a grammarnaz!…

          first by succession which was an unconstitutional action…

          Are you saying that because the Constitution does not PERMIT secession that it is unconstitutional? The Constitution does not prohibit secession either, the US Constitution does not address secession either way…
          Why wasn’t Confederate President Jefferson Davis ever tried for treason? According to a new book, it’s because the Union thought there was a strong possibility that his case would raise troubling questions about the constitutionality of secession, and that a possible acquittal would signal that the Union’s war effort had been unjustified.

        • The Confederates were indeed traitors who took up arms against the United States…

          As a matter of historical fact, just like imperial Japan, the confederacy attacked American citizens serving their country without a declaration of war

          Sounds pretty much like the modern day Progressive wing of Davis’s Democrat Party, sneaky treasonous bastards still today… Thanks for pointing some of the earliest treacheries of the Democrats…

        • The residents of what became the Confederate States lawfully seceded from the rest of the Union. Each State had freely joined the Union based upon popular vote, each such state had the right to voluntarily leave that union
          Further, no Confederate Citizen took up arms against any Union soldiers UNTIL those Union soldiers crossed into Confederate territory. which at that time was a sovereign foreign nation, no longer part of the United States of America.
          the ,myth about attacking mentioned is probably the incident referred to by northern “reporters” as the “Firing on Fort Sumpter in Charleston Harbor. Funny thing is, that military installation was part of South Carolina and had been unlawfully occupied by Union operatives. That fort had been an operating base from which Union gunboats had been harrassing Confederate shipping,sinking ships, blocking trade, confiscating vessels and cargoes. The attack on Sumpter was merely the citizens of that sovereign state attempting to dirve out the foreicgn invaders unlawfully occupying that land and facility.

        • Taking up arms against the United States is exactly what BLM, Antifa, and other such groups have done.

          Other presidents mass-pardoning does not make the act legal or correct. It does indicate a precedent though.

          As to the North vs. the South…
          Something to take note of is that Biden is creating a situation where the North is significantly weaker and the South is significantly stronger. If Civil War 2.0 were to actually happen, the outcome will be very different.

        • “Funny thing is, that military installation was part of South Carolina and had been unlawfully occupied by Union operatives”

          Only question is, are you just ignorant of American history, or are you lying to support your delusional narrative?

          “Early in the nineteenth century, South Carolina had owned multiple forts, namely Fort Moultrie, Castle Pinckney, and Fort Johnson, but ceded them, along with sites for the future erection of forts, to the United States in 1805”

          https://archive.org/details/genesiscivilwar00crawgoog

          And regardless of what Nimarata says, the American Civil War was all about slavery, to suggest otherwise is intentional deception to support the enslavement of humans.

          Confederate vice president Alexander H. Stephens’ “Cornerstone Speech”
          From Henry Cleveland, Alexander H. Stephens, in Public and Private: With Letters and Speeches, Before, During, and Since the War (Philadelphia, 1886), pp. 717-729.

          “Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition.”

          https://www.ucl.ac.uk/USHistory/Building/docs/Cornerstone.htm#:~:text=Our%20new%20government%20is%20founded,his%20natural%20and%20normal%20condition.

        • “That fort had been an operating base from which Union gunboats had been harrassing Confederate shipping,sinking ships, blocking trade, confiscating vessels and cargoes“

          Again, are you all just a bunch of history illiterates, or do you love slavery so much that you are willing to lie even to this day to support the moral sin of biblical chattel slavery.

          So which ships did union troops at fort Sumter sink before the war?

          I’m really interested, it would’ve been a great trick because the fort wasn’t even occupied until after South Carolina seceded:

          “Originally constructed in 1829 as a coastal garrison, U.S. Major Robert Anderson occupied the fort in December 1860 following South Carolina’s secession from the Union, initiating a standoff with the state’s militia forces. When President Abraham Lincoln announced plans to resupply the fort, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, kicking off the Battle of Fort Sumter“

          https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/fort-sumter

          You Republican conservatives just love you some slavery, only difference is in these days you’re wanting the poor to step and fetch for y’all.

        • “Further, no Confederate Citizen took up arms against any Union soldiers UNTIL those Union soldiers crossed into Confederate territory“

          You are just a shameless liar, the facts of history show the Confederacy started the War by bombarding Fort Sumter.

          And worse yet, you are lying to defend American traitors who betrayed their oath and fought to continue the immoral sin of biblical chattel slavery.

          “Friday April 12, 18614:30 A.M.
          The “First Shot”

          A signal mortar shell was fired from Fort Johnson over Fort Sumter. Firing from surrounding batteries soon followed, starting the battle. A Virginia secessionist, Edmund Ruffin, claimed to have fired the “first shot” of the battle and the Civil War.

          At about 7 a.m., some two and a half hours after the general bombardment of the fort had commenced, Anderson gave the order for Sumter’s guns to begin their reply. The first shot was fired by his second-in-command, Captain Abner Doubleday.“

          https://www2.tulane.edu/~sumter/AndTheWarCame/AApr12.2.html

          So if someone supports treason against America, what the fuck does it make them?

          And… I just found out that the inventor of the great American sport of baseball fired the first union arty in response to the war of southern aggression by the confederacy, interesting!

        • Let the record show that once again I have proven you folks don’t know your history, through either ignorance or deceit y’all deny the actual facts of history.

        • MINOR49er, Let the record show that once again, you are full of donkey dust. You Leftists have been trying to rewrite history since the days of Karl Marx.

        • FYI
          With all legal products you have to pay taxes and follow what ever regulations govern that product.
          If you violate them, you can be charged with breaking the law. Some pot heads follow the law and pay their taxes. But many don’t follow the law. And try to avoid paying taxes.

          Even after they all said pot should be taxed just like tobacco. Because “they wanted the government to make more money.”

        • If we are going to treat it like tobacco that let’s get serious about that. Package as such and prohibit it in ALL public places. Most especially indoors. If we are going to treat cigarette smokers like societal outcasts then that is exactly how pot smokers should be handled.

        • “treat cigarette smokers like societal outcasts then that is exactly how pot smokers should be handled“

          The difference is, cannabis is not lethal.

          Cigarettes have been proven to kill millions of Americans from lung and other cancers:

          “Cigarette smoking can cause cancer almost anywhere in the body. Cigarette smoking causes cancer of the mouth and throat, esophagus, stomach, colon, rectum, liver, pancreas, voicebox (larynx), lung, trachea, bronchus, kidney and renal pelvis, urinary bladder, and cervix, and causes acute myeloid leukemia“

          Cigarette smoking costs our healthcare system billions of dollars every year, over $3 trillion in just the past 10 years:

          “Smoking-related illness in the United States costs over than $300 billion each year—about $225 billion for direct medical care for adults and more than $156 billion in lost productivity, including $5.6 billion in lost productivity due to secondhand smoke exposure“

          https://www.cdc.gov/policy/polaris/healthtopics/tobacco/index.html#:~:text=Economic%20Burden,due%20to%20secondhand%20smoke%20exposure.

          So go ahead…

          “Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
          Puff, puff, puff and if you puff yourself to death
          Tell Saint Peter at the golden gate
          Now Lord, hate to make him wait
          But you gotta have one more cigarette“

        • “It’s a different kind of death“

          Really? Would you be kind enough to provide some sort of evidence or citation to support your assertion?

          I showed actual facts with a citation regarding the cost to our society caused by cigarettes, what evidence do you have for marijuana causing “death” as you claim.

          This is very similar to the discussion regarding the Civil War above, conservatives make all sorts of claims but don’t have any facts. Like Donald Trump‘s attorney said, “We have lots of theories, we just don’t have any evidence”.

          Conservatives… You can lead them to the truth, but they still won’t think.

        • I never said cigarettes didn’t kill. So throwing any kind of data or otherwise wont mean anything.

          I am saying that weed does kill. It’s just a different kind of death.

      • I don’t where you get your information. From what I’ve seen over the years, Braindead Joe Biden is far more likely to be selling favors than Trump is. I’ve actually seen the video of Braindead Joe telling the Ukrainian ambassador to fire a prosecutor looking into Hunter’s dealings por they wouldn”t get the BILLION dollars, then bragging that the firing happened. You should check THAT ONE out some time. The entire DNC is a treasonous organization. from top to bottom, they’re ALL guilty.

        • “I’ve actually seen the video of Braindead Joe telling the Ukrainian ambassador to fire a prosecutor looking into Hunter’s dealings”

          Ed, you have been misled.

          “At the heart of Congress’ probe into the president’s actions is his claim that former Vice President and 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden strong-armed the Ukrainian government to fire its top prosecutor in order to thwart an investigation into a company tied to his son, Hunter Biden.
          But sources ranging from former Obama administration officials to an anti-corruption advocate in Ukraine say the official, Viktor Shokin, was ousted for the opposite reason Trump and his allies claim.
          It wasn’t because Shokin was investigating a natural gas company tied to Biden’s son; it
          was because Shokin wasn’t pursuing corruption among the country’s politicians, according to a Ukrainian official and four former American officials who specialized in Ukraine and Europe.
          Shokin’s inaction prompted international calls for his ouster and ultimately resulted in his removal by Ukraine’s parliament.
          Without pressure from Joe Biden, European diplomats, the International Monetary
          Fund and other international organizations, Shokin would not have been fired, said Daria Kaleniuk, co-founder and executive director of the Anti Corruption Action Centre in Kiev.“

          https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110331/documents/HMKP-116-JU00-20191211-SD440.pdf

      • MINOR49er, for your further edification, marijuana is a dangerous addictive drug whether you like it or not. It seems that you Leftists want all Americans disarmed and high on drugs.

        Seems you love to post your Leftist propaganda about Biden and his bribery scandal as well.

        As to Trump selling pardons, you are a bold faced liar. But then what else is new?

    • esquire, you are correct. However, I think it should be legal. The only time I arrested anyone for possession of marijuana was because they were showing their ass and that was all I had. Otherwise, I ground it into the dirt with the heel of my boot and sent them on their way.

    • Haha. I’m not sure about the “writing like a leftist” view there esquire, that’s quite a jump especially coming from someone making a strong federalist argument over state’s rights, but then, that’s a whole other issue! But you are technically correct in that the sale or use of marijuana is still illegal according to federal law even where a growing number of states now permit it in some form, and virtually nowhere is a federal agent going to roll in and arrest people for it. That said, I appreciate technical accuracy, so I updated the story to reflect your point. It was a worthwhile one despite being cloaked in incorrect accusation. As a gun writer, or any writer period, I write about much more than just guns, I do know that. Not every story is selling an ideaology. Some are simply meant to inform and entertain, take away from it what you will.

    • Esquire FYI There is legal weed possession with a federal tax stamp. Most law enforcement agencies and some research facilities have them.
      Rules for thee but not for me

    • Very similar to the GFSZA, which is the FEDERAL crime of possessing a firearm within 1,000 feet of the PROPERTY LINE of any school.

      Yes, there is a permit exemption, but in fact, probably hundreds of thousands of people violate this law each and every day.

      You simply cannot say that because the feds choose to not enforce it, and that there is not a similar state law, that the act is “legal.” It is not.

      These are the worst kinds of laws. They act as a suspended hammer, waiting to knock anyone in the head, WHEN the feds decide to do so.

      Read up on Gabriel Metcalf out of Montana. When it suits their fancy, they WILL enforce it.

      • probably hundreds of thousands of people violate this law each and every day.

        Every time I pull out of my driveway since they built the new Elementary School across the street…

      • Yes, this is why I have a carry permit in a constitutional carry state. Millions of people drive by schools every day. You almost can’t drive through any town or city without going within 1000’ of a school, public or private. What about all the people who live within 1000’ of a school. Under federal law they can’t leave their property with a firearm for lawful purposes. Funny thing our state university has a 21,000 acre forest that is “school” university property but is perfectly legal to hunt deer & elk. Always gave me a chuckle when I was carrying my 300 win mag through the woods on school property being originally from a large anti-gun city on the east coast.

        • when the GFSZA was first foisted upn us I got out a city map, figured out the diameter of 1000 feet based on map scale, and tried to find a “legal” route between MY house and ANY freeway going in any direction. NONE. Not even by boat!!! The Sheriff at that time was of unknown quality in this regard. Bottom line? I trotted myself on down to hos iffice plonked my money down and filled out the paperwork to get my Mother May I Carry a Gun Card. The Sheriffs we’ve had in these parts after him have been very good guys. Eager to see us arm up. And very courteous and down to earth.

    • 1.) It’s so illegal that half the states allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use and the federal government does nothing.

      2. Texas isn’t among those states, nor does it allow the sale of it for medical use. But it is legal federally and at the state level to sell hemp flower, which is what this place in SA sells. You can’t go in there and buy what you can buy in, say, Colorado.

    • This raises the question of where Congress gets the authority to ban certain uses of a plant.

      Originally, Congress didn’t think it had this authority, which is why they engaged in the creation of *clever* tax laws in order to make possession illegal.

      So, if Congress doesn’t have the authority granted to it by the Constitution, which is what Congress (and basically everyone else) believed up until 1970 (183 years, 77.5% of the time the country has existed as a Constitutional Republic), then the law itself is an illegal exercise of Federal authority and the weed is, in fact, legal because Congress has no authority to ban it.

      Which would also mean that what the states are doing is A-OK.

      Between the enumerated powers of the Feds and the 10A, I don’t really see how Congress has this authority at all. My reasoning is pretty simple: that authority doesn’t exist in the Constitution nor any of the amendments thereto.

      Which means we’re back to a post-1942 world, which brings me back to my old hobby horse of Wickard, the same case on which federal gun control efforts rest.

      People seem to think that I’m off my rocker when I say that drug and alcohol controls are fucking-a identical to gun control, buy, sorry, Cons, they are identical and your picking a choosing of one but not the other is blatant hypocrisy masking a mixture of idiocy, cowardice and ignorance.

      Are you willing to strip the feds of their power under Wickard to get your gun rights back if it means de-classification of drugs and sending that power back to the states exclusively?

      I bet most *2A people* are not, in fact we know this from polling over decades. Specifically, they’re not willing to make that trade because they don’t really care about freedom or liberty. Those are just buzzwords. They care about a hobby they can wrap up in a facade of of patriotism and individualism, neither of which they actually care about as long as someone’s got the authority to tell other people not to do scary things and they never actually have to go about watering a tree because, Lord knows, they’re too pansy to even think about it even though they can’t STFU about that buzzword either.

      Freedom for you means freedom for others. Freedom comes with responsibility. You have two choices. You can choose freedom for everyone and encourage others to be responsible or you can empower government to strip freedom from everyone and then we end up in a totalitarian state with killing fields, gulags and concentration camps or we get a bloody civil war half the country won’t survive.

      All because your average GOPer has zero actual principles but rather has preferences they’d like someone else to enforce for them.

      • While your screed against Republicans is quite ignorant and demonstrates how our political discourse has degenerated so much, your point that freedoms are freedoms whatever they are about is spot on.

        • Well, by all means, point to the part where I’m ignorant.

          I’m merely repackaging what Conservatives have said for my entire lifetime into a slightly less PR-friendly (that is, honest) set of sentences.

          Go right ahead and show me the data that supports the notion that the Right, in general, is willing to allow a state to have 7/11’s selling coke and heroin OTC in return for the complete obliteration of federal level gun control.

  4. Anyone working in a small purple (ex-house) building called the ‘Purple Dragon Cannabis Dispensary’ in a run down low-rent-type section of town should be ready for such nefarious characters.

    • A pot shop is just like a liquor store in the early 1970s. They got robbed all the time. The marijuana business is made of some of the stupidest “business men”.

      “Just make pot legal and all the crime will go away”

      Now click your heels together as you say that, so it will come true.

      • if they would have made it legal and didn’t try to make it into a tax cash cow maybe the problems really would have gone away. Nobody fights over soybeans.

        • That’s what this is all about though…the big “if”.

          The effort to make pot legal is about not getting into trouble with law enforcement by those those that smoke it and making tax money by those that make law. No one ever considers the unintended consequences of involving government. But people that smoke it never consider the consequences of their own choices anyway. Making it legal doesn’t change the danger around it. If anything changes, it’s the dealer you get it from. Being a brick and mortar structure doesn’t make anyone safer.

        • Once organized crime gets large and powerful enough they’ll take over everything and use violence to keep that power. Legal business will become part of crime syndicates.

          See Mexico for an example. Off the top of my head: jellyfish, regular fish, avocados (hat-tip to Shire-man), tomatoes, oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, minerals and precious metals, they make all that stuff hyper-violent because they can buy their way in and muck up the place.

          And yes, the WoD made the “cartels” that powerful. Not helped, made.

          It’s hardly surprising. If Commies or Fascists were bootleggers, they’d have done the same were they given the soil for their little seed of destruction to grow. Instead, they just did it under the auspices of “government” because that made it “legal”.

  5. The place it open at 3:30 AM? Don’t liquor joints generally have to be closed before that time, yet this is able to be open?

  6. The employee who had the firearm should be charged with possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime. The people that tried to rob the drug house should have a whole laundry list of charges.

      • I get the feeling that this slogan will become popular on the Right in a few years.

        Kinda like how you can listen to RATM these days and hear a Right-wing anthem. Weird how that band did so well under Clinton…

  7. Legal or not drugs are as good as cash and easier to move than other stolen property so these shops will always be at high risk for theft.

    The only way to change that is to let anyone grow it anywhere for any use but I already hate people and I can’t imagine interacting with a bunch of high people would make hate them any less.

    • judge much? Based on, what is it, exactly now?the main reason these pot businesses use cash is because federal banking laws prohibit fed chartered banks from dealing with ‘illegel drugs” so they can’t use credit cards and other non-cash means of payment. Most transfers and shipments of weed are done at night in plain looking cars that dont stand out in any way. Have tp pay for the product in cash, have to take the cash along to pay for it, fed regs have forced it to mostly be a cash based business. Not right, but that’s the way it is for now.The robbers know this and take advantage when they can. Stealing weed and cash are both easy, and both are difficult to identify. As if most coppers would assist in recovering stolen pot…. year, right.

  8. Somebody else was taken to the same hospital with half a dozen small plastic toy horses up their butt.

    Doctors described their condition as “stable”.

    • Like the bright boy that had his ‘boyfriend’ stuff a ping pong ball up his rear and then had him do a head stand against the wall while said ‘boyfriend’ poured concrete in with a funnel so as(s) to make a casting of the, err, ‘piping’ of the sewage treatment plant?

      Seems they couldn’t get the casting out, sooooo…. A quick trip to ER…

      You hear about, (and get to see the x-rays,) of all KINDS of weird stuff at EMT conferences…

      • “…while said ‘boyfriend’ poured concrete in with a funnel so as(s) to make a casting of the, err, ‘piping’ of the sewage treatment plant?”

        Brings new meaning to the expression “shitting bricks”, I must say.

        Yowzers… ;(

    • Society is already broken and the country, as most think of it, already utterly destroyed.

      I fail to see how legal pot makes a measurable difference.

  10. What’s the difference between gangs running ‘drug dispensaries’ and demoncrats running ‘drug dispensaries’? Both get robbed, both have shootouts.

  11. harshing everyone’s mellow

    Thought it was “harshing my BUZZ, man” but then I’m old….

  12. I like that purple house.
    If I had a house I’d paint it purple.
    One time I had a house but the loggers cut it down for a saw log.
    It even had a balcony.
    I tried to scare the loggers off by firing two blast but all they said was “CHAINSAW BAYONET”, and fired up the Skidder.

  13. I’m just to paste this here that I found online awhile back:

    “As John Farnam says, we shouldn’t be going to stupid places with stupid people and doing stupid things.”

  15. If one had the money one could make a solid case that cannabis MUST be removed from its current Schedule One listing, as it absolutely does NOT fit the requirements to be listed in that category. Once it is proven to NOT be Schedule One, then it would automatically no longer be illegal as it is wrongly listed, and that listing and attendant criminal charges would be illegal to enforce.
    Not certain WHO bears the responsibility of deciding what is listed in which category, but perhaps that alone might also be a path to remove it from Schedule One for having been unlawfully listed,

    • The same WHO that thinks they have a justified right to decide for the rest of us who is qualified to own guns.

  16. MJ dispensaries often only accept cash (or debit cards). So they are likely targets for robberies, either of weed or money.
    The clerk, who is likely to be a MJ user, has a problem because he is by definition a prohibited carrier under Federal law, so will end up being reported to the NICS. Hope his choice to fight was worth both his injuries and the future loss of his right to carry.

  17. Interesting part of this story is: “Recreational” use of marijuana is not legal in TX. So how’n-the-hell is there a “cannabis dispensary” in San Antonio? Where is the local/state law enforcement to shut this operation down?
    Interesting…

      • Yes, that’s how medical marijuana works. People get an Rx that, in most states, allows them to get an ID card to buy pot (or even enter a dispensary in many states).

        Basically the same as Everclear used to be in Ohio. Every liquor store had a bottle or two of it but you needed an Rx to buy it. I assume this “blue law” is still in effect, but I haven’t looked or been to Ohio in over a decade.

        • The medical uses of marijuana are real. And there have been many people that have been helped by its use. But that has always been a distraction.

          The drug leg@liz@tion crowd, the libertarians, have always been about irresponsibility. They reject responsibility. And refuse to accept the consequences and responsibilities that go along with liberty.

          Using the WoD as an excuse for the growth of the cartels, is just another distraction. The libertarians want to enable drug use. By using government power. And they support taking the private property of law abiding people, inorder to facilitate that.

          That is why they supported raising what is a misdemeanor theft in California, up to $950. Making drugs legal increased crime where it was made legal. Because drug addicts have to steal in order to pay for their drugs.

          And the libertarians know that and they don’t care.

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