Armored Car Companies Is the Federal Government’s Latest Attack On Legal Marijuana

Harborside CEO Steve DeAngelo has 128,000 registered patients

As reported earlier this week on Harborside Medical’s website and reposted here on Weedist, the federal government is now going after medical marijuana in one of the few ways that it still can; by indirectly targeting related industries and making it difficult (or illegal) for them to accept business from medical marijuana dispensaries.

The feds have given armored car companies in California notice to stop working with any cannabis-related business, which will effect several large medical marijuana dispensaries (including Harborside, the largest cannabis business in the United States, with locations in both Oakland and San Jose, California).

As it stands, medial marijuana dispensaries all around the country don’t have access to basic small business tools, like credit card processing and other essential banking functions. The federal government has repeatedly pretended like this isn’t a major issue that is harming many legitimate small businesses around the country.

If medical marijuana growers and dispensary owners aren’t allowed to protect themselves and their product using legal means like armored car companies, how are they supposed to? This sets a pretty terrible precedent. Basically, the feds are yet again forcing totally law-abiding citizens to have to resort to potentially illegal measures. How are legal growers supposed to protect themselves from those that definitely aren’t going to follow the law (if they intend to rob them)?

This comes after several weeks of up-and-downs in the quality of news about the government’s opinion on our favorite topic of choice. After positive momentum began growing after Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s CNN report about the benefits of marijuana, the federal government continues to ignore the problem of marijuana’s schedule 1 classification, despite the fact that two states are currently gearing up to legally sell it.

Armored car companies and security companies are essentially being threatened and bullied with prosecution if they decide to take legal business from marijuana dispensaries. This strong-arm gestapo tactic  is yet another thorn in our side, and in the side of common sense, reason and basic human decency.

More people than not live in a state with some form of legal cannabis…

How much longer is this going to continue before we say that enough is enough? More people than not support recreational marijuana legalization in America and 85% support medical marijuana legalization. There are many states that continue to legalize marijuana for medical use. These states are clearly seeing how marijuana is not only good for the people of their state’s daily lives, but have actually helped many local economies by creating jobs and plenty of legal revenue from licensing fees.

Maybe the issue is that the people in charge don’t care about the hypocrisy. Whatever the problem, this latest new federal restriction is just unnecessary and making the logical point for us at this point in history.