History of Medical Marijuana Violence (From Playboy)

[rebgirl420]

In his article in the March issue of Playboy, investigative journalist Frank Owen reports on the unsolved murder of medical marijuana activist Ken Gorman, and illustrates how medical marijuana laws played a role in the killing. Gorman is hardly the only dealer who has met with violence -- here are some other cases.


August 19, 2005: Half a dozen armed men descend on A Natural Source, a marijuana dispensary near Oakland, just as employees are opening for business. The intruders order the employees to lie on the floor and proceed to steal money and marijuana. As the robbers make their escape, one employee grabs a gun. The subsequent shoot-out leaves one of the robbers, 17-year-old Demarco Lowery, dead.


September 27, 2005: In Olivehurst, a small country town about an hour's drive from Sacramento, a pair of armed white supremacists -- Christopher Hance, 21, and Eugene Scott Davies, 19 -- are shot to death while protecting their medical marijuana garden after thieves come on their property at three in the morning. The shooter, Michael Huggins, claims self-defense but is later convicted of manslaughter.


September 8, 2006: Alan Darcey Smith, 45, a medical marijuana patient who lives in Goshen, Oregon, confronts two men breaking into his house to steal his pot. As the robbers flee in a pick-up truck, Smith fires a shotgun at the vehicle, killing the getaway driver, 48-year-old Debra Lynn Contreras. Smith is charged with murder.


September 20, 2006: In Bakersfield, California, thieves gun down 19-year-old Leonard Banks in his home while attempting to take his father's medical marijuana in the back yard. It is the second shooting in the house within a matter of hours. The father is shot on both occasions, but survives.


October 22, 2006: Three thieves posing as buyers attempt to purchase 20 pounds of medical marijuana from two patients at the Best Value Inn in Oroville, California. After one of the buyers pulls out a gun, a battle ensues in which 17 shots are fired. Two of the three buyers are killed in the shoot-out, along with one of the sellers.


January 21, 2007: Alerted by his barking dog, Los Angeles cancer patient Jerry Cress discovers a 15-year-old boy allegedly trying to steal marijuana plants from Cress's garden shed just before daybreak. Cress shoots the boy, Jacob Walker, in the back with a small-caliber handgun as the boy and his older brother flee the scene. Walker dies in the street and police arrest 57-year-old Cress at his home on suspicion of murder.


June 28, 2007: Two men follow 37-year-old Gary Jones after he drives away from the Compassionate Patient Cooperative on the outskirts of San Francisco. Jones stops at a gas station, and while he is inside paying for gas, he sees the men steal half an ounce of marijuana from his car. Jones confronts them, and is shot dead.


September 25, 2007: Adrienne Simone, a Sacramento woman protecting her medical marijuana garden, shoots a 17-year-old male in the face in the early hours of the morning. The teenager survives. Simone is arrested for assault with a deadly weapon.

The rest of this article can be found in this months Playboy magazine.

Hope you guys and gals liked the article!

rebgirl420 Reviewed by rebgirl420 on 02-13-2008. History of Medical Marijuana Violence (From Playboy) In his article in the March issue of Playboy, investigative journalist Frank Owen reports on the unsolved murder of medical marijuana activist Ken Gorman, and illustrates how medical marijuana laws played a role in the killing. Gorman is hardly the only dealer who has met with violence -- here are some other cases. August 19, 2005: Half a dozen armed men descend on A Natural Source, a marijuana dispensary near Oakland, just as employees are opening for business. The intruders order the Rating: 5

[rebgirl420]

So no one else is extremely pissed off over all of this craziness?


Come on, you guys and gals know you are.

[FUNKNUGGET]

all of this bullshit is over greedy people and money... I've been held a gunpoint over some weed and money and know other people who have been robbed for pot aswell... people are super greedy these days, I don't know if it's the economy or what, but I've learned you really can't trust anyone...

[matthiasj]

intresting people are crazy just get a script

[Kryptonite24]

WTF
WTF
WTF

[stinkyattic]

This is not a good picture of the cannabis culture. It makes us look like a society of heathens.

There are greedy people everywhere, but the shootings over hard drug deals gone bad just don't even make the paper any more because the conservative press [*cough* Playboy *cough*] isn't trying to make a political statement over those types of crimes, and anyway, it's poor minorities shooting each other, right?
MMJ is certainly high on everyones' radar screens as a political issue and it's a good issue to try to polarize people over in order to win votes or sell newspapers.

[NextLineIsMine]

Now if we simply legalized it and it was worth only a few bucks a gram this sort of shit wouldn't happen...would it

[rebgirl420]

Now if we simply legalized it and it was worth only a few bucks a gram this sort of shit wouldn't happen...would it

I don't think the writer is trying to make the cannabis culture look bad. I think that THIS is what he's trying to go at. Playboy is anything but the conservative press. They have a rich history of pro-cannabis support. Hell, they even do benefits for "the cause" 3-4 times a year.

[denial102]

In his article in the March issue of Playboy, investigative journalist Frank Owen reports on the unsolved murder of medical marijuana activist Ken Gorman, and illustrates how medical marijuana laws played a role in the killing. Gorman is hardly the only dealer who has met with violence -- here are some other cases.


August 19, 2005: Half a dozen armed men descend on A Natural Source, a marijuana dispensary near Oakland, just as employees are opening for business. The intruders order the employees to lie on the floor and proceed to steal money and marijuana. As the robbers make their escape, one employee grabs a gun. The subsequent shoot-out leaves one of the robbers, 17-year-old Demarco Lowery, dead.


September 27, 2005: In Olivehurst, a small country town about an hour's drive from Sacramento, a pair of armed white supremacists -- Christopher Hance, 21, and Eugene Scott Davies, 19 -- are shot to death while protecting their medical marijuana garden after thieves come on their property at three in the morning. The shooter, Michael Huggins, claims self-defense but is later convicted of manslaughter.


September 8, 2006: Alan Darcey Smith, 45, a medical marijuana patient who lives in Goshen, Oregon, confronts two men breaking into his house to steal his pot. As the robbers flee in a pick-up truck, Smith fires a shotgun at the vehicle, killing the getaway driver, 48-year-old Debra Lynn Contreras. Smith is charged with murder.


September 20, 2006: In Bakersfield, California, thieves gun down 19-year-old Leonard Banks in his home while attempting to take his father's medical marijuana in the back yard. It is the second shooting in the house within a matter of hours. The father is shot on both occasions, but survives.


October 22, 2006: Three thieves posing as buyers attempt to purchase 20 pounds of medical marijuana from two patients at the Best Value Inn in Oroville, California. After one of the buyers pulls out a gun, a battle ensues in which 17 shots are fired. Two of the three buyers are killed in the shoot-out, along with one of the sellers.


January 21, 2007: Alerted by his barking dog, Los Angeles cancer patient Jerry Cress discovers a 15-year-old boy allegedly trying to steal marijuana plants from Cress's garden shed just before daybreak. Cress shoots the boy, Jacob Walker, in the back with a small-caliber handgun as the boy and his older brother flee the scene. Walker dies in the street and police arrest 57-year-old Cress at his home on suspicion of murder.


June 28, 2007: Two men follow 37-year-old Gary Jones after he drives away from the Compassionate Patient Cooperative on the outskirts of San Francisco. Jones stops at a gas station, and while he is inside paying for gas, he sees the men steal half an ounce of marijuana from his car. Jones confronts them, and is shot dead.


September 25, 2007: Adrienne Simone, a Sacramento woman protecting her medical marijuana garden, shoots a 17-year-old male in the face in the early hours of the morning. The teenager survives. Simone is arrested for assault with a deadly weapon.

The rest of this article can be found in this months Playboy magazine.

Hope you guys and gals liked the article!

I thought in a lot of states you can legally shoot trespassers anyway? Hmm that is crazy..

Peace,
Denial

[Kryptonite24]

Now if we simply legalized it and it was worth only a few bucks a gram this sort of shit wouldn't happen...would it

for reals. i was thinking the same tthink brah