My husband and I went to Sacramento to visit our friends who are “retiring” from their wholesale tool business after decades. We drove to their warehouse, which is one of 7 very large warehouses. We asked them why they were going out of business.  They said that the entire complex of warehouses which contained their business had filled up with marijuana growers. They’ve been broken into so many times.  They had to put up a sign on their door that says “There is no cash and no computers inside of this business.”

The growers showed up a few years ago with enormous rolls of cash and began plunking down copious amounts of money.  They started wanting more and more of space. Continue reading Warehouse Business Must Close Because of the Pot Growers →