{"id":1090411,"date":"2021-12-06T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1090411"},"modified":"2021-12-06T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:14:11","slug":"marijuana-dispensary-owner-on-oakland-crime-surge-i-was-safer-selling-weed-on-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marijuana-dispensary-owner-on-oakland-crime-surge-i-was-safer-selling-weed-on-the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Dispensary Owner On Oakland Crime Surge: \u2018I Was Safer Selling Weed On The Streets\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmarijuana-dispensary-owner-on-oakland-crime-surge-i-was-safer-selling-weed-on-the-streets%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1090411&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"42.194888178914\">\n<p>A marijuana dispensary owner from Oakland commented on the recent crime surge rocking his California city and said he was \u201csafer selling weed on the streets\u201d than dishing out pot legally through his business in a new video clip posted to Twitter on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was safer selling weed on the streets of Oakland than I am selling it legally,\u201d owner Alphonso Blunt said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s a problem. That\u2019s crazy to even say, but that\u2019s just the reality I\u2019m living in right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.028880866426\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The owner of a cannabis dispensary in Oakland, California says, \u201cI was safer selling weed on the streets of Oakland than I am selling it legally\u201d in the Democrat-run city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a problem.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fl8MumW27N\">pic.twitter.com\/fl8MumW27N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1467907523676377089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blunt, the owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluntsandmoore.com\/\">Blunts and Moore<\/a>, alleged that he lost \u201cabout $25,000\u201d when his store was hit during an incident this November, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10279353\/San-Francisco-suspends-cannabis-tax-help-retailers-compete-dealers-store-thefts.html\">according<\/a> to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>Blunt\u2019s comments that he felt \u201csafer selling weed on the streets\u201d originally aired on November 21 on Fox News. A portion of the segment was posted by the Republican National Committee Research\u2019s official Twitter account Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Blunt\u2019s segment preceded an address from Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong on November 30 via KTVU Fox 2 San Francisco, in which Armstrong highlighted two shootings and a string of thefts targeting marijuana dispensaries.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oakland police chief addresses latest wave of violent crime\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hFaxm356if0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>One of the shootings Armstrong mentioned claimed the life of Kevin Nishita, a police officer turned security guard, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/28\/robbery-surge-black-friday-weekend-california-chicago-minneapolis\/\">attempted<\/a> to stop a robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The events also follow an October <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/21\/ersie-joyner-shot-during-robbery-oakland\/\">incident<\/a> in which a retired police captain was shot during an attempted robbery at a gas station. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/10\/senior-elderly-asian-american-man-seriously-hurt-assault-oakland\/\">(RELATED: 75-Year-Old Asian Man \u2018Seriously Hurt\u2019 After Being Assaulted While Out For A Walk)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Oakland City Council voted to strip the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/29\/oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-criticize-city-council-defund-police\/\">police budge<\/a>t of more than $17 million back in June.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A marijuana dispensary owner from Oakland commented on the recent crime surge rocking his California city and said he was \u201csafer selling weed on the streets\u201d than dishing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}