Unlike alcohol, tobacco, caffeine or prescription meds, mar1juana is still on the fringes of legality, and there are consequently some pretty scummy people involved in the industry. It's not an accident that this happened to a pot dispenser and not a Coca Cola exec. Among legal trades, I'd say this is most likely to happen in selling mar1juana because of its nascent legal status. But no sympathy? I have sympathy for anyone who has his junk cut off, no matter how evil he might be, how much he might have it coming, or however much it may be self-inflicted. That sucks. Anyway, those 4 sound like some bad people, so I'm glad they're off the streets.
It's like that saying...a **** in hand is worth two hundred thou of non sequential bills buried in the desert.
Yeah, one of my favorite flicks. Great Pulp Fiction reference, but damn, the poor guy! When someone tells him, "You standing there with your dick in your hand, chump?" then he's standing there holding a freakin' jar. I guess he's a Jar Head from now on. I hope he at least spent some time in the Corp. Better than being a Dead Head, but that might be debatable.
Guy takes some folks out to party in Vegas and this is how they repay him? Pretty vicious torture too... blowtorch? Jeez. But it kind of makes sense - these idiots didn't wear masks or use any kind of voice-modifiers probably. Therefore victim knew identities of perpetrators. Therefore perpetrators knew that he knew that there was no "way out alive" for him - he would end up dead no matter what. So, victim has no incentive to disclose the location of said buried money so perpetrators go to extreme torture as only to get him to disclose the info. These guys should get hanged if found guilty.
It was because the victim was a legalized dealer of mar1juana, that he can go to the police and testify against the kidnappers. If he had been a crack or meth dealer, his only recourse would have been to hire hitmen and put a contract out on their lives. Most drug related violence and homicide, is due to the fact that there is no legal way to resolve disputes, and that they can't report crimes to law enforcement.
Sure, I don't disagree. But, that doesn't really speak to what I was talking about, which is the sort of other people he'll consort with in the industry because it was once illegal, in many places still is illegal, is still considered illegal by the federal government, and oh by the way, dominated by organized crime and oftentimes vicious Mexican cartels. Maybe 50 years from now, pot will be corporate and we can think of it just like alcohol. That this guy can call the police and have crooks imprisoned instead of knocked off is a step in that direction. But, we're not there yet.
