Toronto Police Bring A Crane And Put 4,000 Pound Cement Blocks In Front Of A Weed Dispensary Overnight - BIG Problem For The Guy Who Lives In It.

So this is something that Toronto has been doing – they conduct “raids” late at night where they roll a crane up to your weed dispensary and drop gigantic concrete boulders in front of your shop.  So you show up the next morning with your cup of coffee, ready for another day of selling weed to smiling customers, and, SURPRISE!  A trillion pounds of concrete!

They decided to run the concrete play again this week, this time on Cafe 66, an “illegal cannabis store.”  They executed perfectly, but their celebration was short-lived when they realized they made a small mistake:

Somebody lived in there.  A guy who was now basically entombed by approximately 36,000 pounds of concrete.

When cement blocks were unloaded by crane directly in front of the store — a fairly new tactic to try and shut down illegal dispensaries once and for all — they didn’t realize they were trapping an upstairs tenant.

Once the tenant woke up and realized they couldn’t leave their home, they called the police.

And after everything, the blocks had to be removed all over again. (blogto)

I hate to play armchair-quarterback here, especially when it comes to matters of finances and government, but I gotta ask: is it possible there’s a better way to use taxpayer money than by having cranes put 4,000 pound cement blocks in front of cannabis stores then coming back to remove all the 4,000 pound cement blocks from cannabis stores to free the man you entombed in there then putting 4,000 pound cement blocks back in front of the cannabis stores?  Perhaps there is an easier, better, more efficient solution to cannabis stores, one that doesn’t involve 4,000 pound cement blocks (or cement blocks of any weight, really)?

Better idea: legalize it?*

*Update: the weed is legal, problem is the guy didn’t have a legal permit.  Good thing I have no shortage of ideas – next best one: legalize this guy’s cannabis store with or without a permit as amends for entombing him in 36,000 pounds of concrete.  If not, next idea: owner, go get a permit.