2 medical pot stores firebombed in Montana

[Cherchez la Femme]

Source: UPI.com

BILLINGS, Mont., May 10 (UPI) -- Two medical marijuana stores were firebombed and vandalized in Billings, Mont., authorities and owners said.

Both stores had "not in our town" spray-painted on them, the Billings Gazette reported.

David Couch of Big Sky Patient Care said he was told his business was hit about 5 a.m. Sunday while he was out of town. Surveillance video shows one person spray-painting the message while another throws a firebomb through the front door of the business, which had just opened in recent weeks.

The second attack occurred about 4:30 a.m. Monday at Montana Therapeutics, the Gazette said. Fire department battalion Chief Ed Regele described the firebomb as a "Molotov cocktail."

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/05/10/2-medical-pot-stores-firebombed-in-Montana/UPI-70751273515098/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

---

I guess that kind of terrorism is 'American', so it's good terrorism. :wtf: :grr:

As for "not in our town"...
yeah, medical marijuana stores are comparable to Neo-Nazi attacks against Jewish people :eyes:

[Dappleganger]

1. On a side note...

bet those firemen had no problems getting volunteers for that gig. ;)

[tomm2thumbs]

10. +1

all volunteered to work the fire down wind from the building

[Duer 157099]

2. Jesus Christ, next they'll be bombing the ASPCA

WTF is wrong with people!!!

[Viking12]

29. WWJB

[ChairmanAgnostic]

30. religion, ultraconservatism (Rush-styled), lack of critical thinking.

As to the last point, they confuse critical thinking with criticism.

[loudsue]

42. WTF is wrong with people? Fox "news" and Rush Limbaugh.

They're making people crazier than hell. Intentionally.

[Webster Green]

3. Right wing terrorism.

Brainwashed fucking morans.

They haven't heard about how this medicine helps cancer patients and many others?

[nebenaube]

4. drug dealers... n/t

[dhill926]

7. my thought as well.........

eating into profits......

[proteus_lives]

8. +2

[Hoopla Phil]

14. +3. First thing that came to my mind. No matter who it is I hope they are

found and fully prosecuted.

[musette_sf]

18. + 1

or LE

Both stand to lose

[fasttense]

31. Of course it was the current crop of drug dealers.

The price of street marijuana drops when medical marijuana is allowed. These stores seriously cut into the profits of the drug lords.

[meow mix]

36. wrong again. high demands make prices go up.

in this industry.. supplys can never meet the demands which increase with more legal users everyday.

also keep in mind that most new caregivers have horrible products, while the established dealer has all the connections and all the best product.
all the dealers i know are very happy and could care less about medical establishments.

[nebenaube]

44. not the swag smugglers...

high quality bud certainly hurts their sales.

[meow mix]

47. this is montana, even the swag smugglers beat 75% of the caregivers

on quality.

[meow mix]

33. nope.. its the anti-mmj protestors the christian church sends after us. garunteed

drug dealers up here wouldnt bother other businesses.

[maxsolomon]

37. poor reasoning

WHICH drug dealing would prompt that animosity?

pot? doubt it. on the same team.
meth? no competent enough.
coke? this is montana.
liquor? why bother?

religion? well, ok. if that qualifies as a drug...

[semillama]

43. It IS the opiate of the masses...n/t

[LiberalLoner]

5. This makes me sad. :( But not surprised. Billings is one of the more conservative cities in MT.nt

[donco6]

6. But - hic - gettin' likkered up and smakin' the wife around iz A-OK!

:eyes:

[NJmaverick]

9. for some reason fire fighters took more than twice as long to put out the fires

:evilgrin:

On a serious note this does have the stink of terrorism

[bitchkitty]

11. They wre probably all drunk when they did it. n/t

[fascisthunter]

12. right wing terrorism..

[happygoluckytoyou]

13. IN A RELATED STORY-- republican cancer patient would rather suffer

[elias49]

15. Yuup. And not have any health care plan. nt

[defendandprotect]

16. k

[defendandprotect]

17. It's like abortion and murdering doctors . . . when rw loses they send out their thugs . . . .

[stevedeshazer]

19. Heroic drugwar crusaders! How courageous to show up at 4:30 am to commit vandalism crimes.

Brave, brave crusaders.

Seriously, what kind of chicken shit shows up before dawn to vandalize a place to make a point?

At 4:30 am, the only people awake in Billings are bakers, newspaper delivery folks, taggers, truck drivers and tweekers.

I'm going with tweekers.

[maxsolomon]

38. 4:30 a.m. is the logical time to vandalize

the point of vandalizing is not to get caught and live to vandalize again.

[cory777]

20. Montana marijuana clinic firebombed before moratorium vote

Source: AP

Someone threw a molotov cocktail through the window of a Billings, Mont., business that provides marijuana for medical use early Monday and spray-painted "NOT IN OUR TOWN" on its storefront, the second such act in as many days, authorities said.

The incidents come as the Billings City Council is scheduled to vote Monday night on a six-month moratorium on approving additional marijuana businesses.

A rock was used to break the glass of Montana Therapeutics at 4:30 a.m. Monday, and a beer bottle filled with gasoline was lighted and thrown inside, according to Sgt. Kevin Iffland of the Billings police. A passerby reported the fire.

Fire crews quickly put out the small blaze, Deputy Fire Marshal Trevor Schilling said.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/10/AR2010051004566.html?wprss=rss_nation

[XemaSab]

21. Sounds like domestic terrorism to me

n/t

[BadGimp]

22. I bet that fire brought out ALL the volunteers..

[CLANG]

23. Probably drunks.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

24. So pot bad, molotov cocktails good.

Got it.

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Yes, bomb-throwing assholes shouldn't have to share their town with cancer grannies coping w/chemo..

Ugh.

[MindPilot]

46. "a beer bottle filled with gasoline"

How ironic

[truthisfreedom]

26. I hope they get caught and brought up on terrorism charges.

And I hope the owners have good insurance.

[truthisfreedom]

27. I hope they get caught and brought up on terrorism charges.

And I hope the owners have good insurance.

[Macoy]

28. Fire bombing…over medical marijuana?????

WTF??? Fire bombing…over medical marijuana??? I just can not understand how any one would be willing to spend the rest of their life in prison over this issue. Protest, picket the store, urge elected officials to change the law….sure, firebombing, and possible killing people?? No way.

/supports legalized marijuana use
/not willing to firebomb to show my support for marijuana


Macoy

[retired af major]

32. Psssttt ....

Its already in your town.
Ironically, they'd probably be a-okay with a brothel being opened up.

[fascisthunter]

34. the Firefighters must of had a grand time putting that fire out

3,2,1... inhale!!!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

40. And then the firefighters reconvened at the bakery

which promptly sold out of brownies and chocolate chip cookies.

[Trillo]

35. Curious the writer didn't use the word "graffiti".

I wonder what the thinking is. This was "spray-paint vandalism", what is the difference between that and graffiti?

A video camera doesn't seem to be enough security, one wonders if it will be enough for police to identify and prosecute.

[awoke_in_2003]

48. "what is the difference between that and graffiti?"

the color of the person holding the can, but you probably asked that question rhetorically.

[Uncle Joe]

39. I agree with the posters up-thread, it was probably drug dealers.

Thanks for the thread, Cherchez la Femme.

[Flaneur]

41. It is silly to try to blame this attack on drug dealers.

Montana's medical marijuana law is fairly tightly written. There are probably only a few hundred qualified patients in the state. There are tens of thousands of people who smoke pot. Medical marijuana dispensaries are not a threat to pot dealers, who not generally known to be violent criminals anyway.

[nebenaube]

45. well

in most cases stated in this thread I agree with you but on one exception; the cartel types are scary.