Looks like our breaking news column is going to be full of these stories for the next few days and where possible we will locate all these events as it is important for cannabis business owners of all stripes to be able to discuss what to do in the future when events like this happen.
Once again our heart goes out to the owner(s) and staff who we know will have put both their life and soul and most likely life savings into the store.
Will insurance campanies assist at least on a state basis – we very much hope so
These events further illustrate why the cannabis sector needs Federal recognition so that banking, insurance etc can be available to these businesses.
Kobie Evans, left, and Kevin Hart are partners in Pure Oasis, which is set to be the city of Boston’s first recreational marijuana shop. (Courtesy of Mike Whittaker)
The Boston Globe reports…
They say robbers knew shop layout; more than $100,000 of cannabis taken
Pure Oasis, the first Black-run marijuana store to open in Massachusetts, was looted early Monday morning in what its owners are calling a “targeted attack” that coincided with the protests that rocked Boston.
Kobie Evans, the co-owner of the shop in the Grove Hall neighborhood, said at least a dozen people entered Pure Oasis after someone broke through the window and opened the front door from the inside around 1:43 a.m.
Several small groups forced their way into a back storeroom, he told the Globe after reviewing security camera footage, making off with about 2,000 pre-rolled joints and 2,000 pre-packaged containers of marijuana flower worth well over $100,000 at retail prices.
The smash-and-grab robbery came on the same night — but well away from — peaceful protests in Boston against police brutality that later gave way to violent clashes and the looting of numerous retailers. Evans believes the timing was intentional, with the initial robbers counting on the police being distracted by the protests.
“They were deliberate. They purposefully came just to our shop,” Evans said. “They were able to get into a secure back room. They knew exactly where they were going.”
