There is crime everywhere, just like shark attacks and car wrecks.
I was just in SF last weekend.
I walked all over The Financial, North Beach and SOMA.
Like many, many,many times in the past...........i had no trouble..
Worst type of shark attack? Land sharks. You just don't expect it.
There are probably more than a few Psych majors plumbing this site for their final thesis...
There are also probably more than a few PhotoPirates plumbing this thread for recent wide-angle pictures of SF tourist traps.
I really wonder what effect legalization will have on illegal grows. The price of pot has dropped so much that production has to be at a larger scale than in the old days and that's hard to do when you're growing in the back country (don't ask me how I know). When I lived in the woods of Northern California and Oregon we would go hiking in the winter and often encounter fallow illegal grows. We'd inform the local cops (both of them) and know where to avoid during summer. Meth labs are entirely another matter as they are much smaller. But I don't see how small scale pot farming can compete with the mega-greenhouses that exist today. So...maybe a little safer in the hills?
I really wonder what effect legalization will have on illegal grows. The price of pot has dropped so much that production has to be at a larger scale than in the old days and that's hard to do when you're growing in the back country (don't ask me how I know). When I lived in the woods of Northern California and Oregon we would go hiking in the winter and often encounter fallow illegal grows. We'd inform the local cops (both of them) and know where to avoid during summer. Meth labs are entirely another matter as they are much smaller. But I don't see how small scale pot farming can compete with the mega-greenhouses that exist today. So...maybe a little safer in the hills?
I really wonder what effect legalization will have on illegal grows. The price of pot has dropped so much that production has to be at a larger scale than in the old days and that's hard to do when you're growing in the back country (don't ask me how I know). When I lived in the woods of Northern California and Oregon we would go hiking in the winter and often encounter fallow illegal grows. We'd inform the local cops (both of them) and know where to avoid during summer. Meth labs are entirely another matter as they are much smaller. But I don't see how small scale pot farming can compete with the mega-greenhouses that exist today. So...maybe a little safer in the hills?
Interesting to learn that growers of know good quality stuff in the Santa Cruz mountains had not found expansion market for their product in spite of legalized growing and distribution and sales. There was an article in the newspaper some time back about the obstacles that they encountered. Although not about Santa Cruz growers, this article gives some insight into the lack of economic success
Why legal weed is failing in one of California’s legendary pot-growing regions
In Trinity County, boom-and-bust cycles are part of history. Legal cannabis promised to be an economic shot in the arm. But that expectation quickly collapsed.lookout.co
My wife inherited a home from her parents, which has been rented to same person since before their passing (after we put them into a senior residence). He invested in marijuana business, and it has been nowhere near the success he hoped it would be, to the point that he has largely withdrawn from that market and returned to his proven business of buying properties, renovating then, then flipping them.
Despite legalization, continued federal status makes it hard for pot businesses to have conventional bank accounts for paying creditors and employees, and since a lot of cash moves about, the pirates target the movements of cash so not only is money in jeopardy but employees are endangered. The taxation of the businesses is a significant issue, as mentioned in a March 2022 article
Tax Hikes Continue to Hit the Cannabis Industry Hard | Good Times
Six Santa Cruz County cannabis businesses have shuttered over the last year.www.goodtimes.sc
The lack of federal legal status interferes with legal pot business operators having access to financial institutions, insurance, and related services.
I definitely wouldn't take a camera with me when visiting illegal marijuana operations run by the Cartel or meth labs run by an infamous motorcycle gang, unless I had some human mutants to act as body guards.
Outsiders might think of Calif as wealthy due to the tech industry, or perhaps Hollywood. But it's also got the most financially productive farmland in the world. It's amazing what's grown here. But now the no. 1 income crop is actually pot, and at least 75% of that is illegal, zero taxes collected, and it involves an enormous quantity of water being pirated and polluted. Some of these are huge Cartel operations way back in the brush with workers helicoptered in, and guarded with fully automatic weapons. Yeah, they keep them way back in, where few few tourists or hikers are apt to go anyway. They tend to discovered when their metal-roofed sheds and warehouses get their camo covers burned off during forest fires, and spotted by fire fighting or damage assessment overflights. By the time authorities can safely get there after a big burn, everyone has left. These aren't amateurs anymore. And most of the meth trade in Central Cal is not amateur either, but part of an international cartel run by an infamous motorcycle gang.
Don't say this got nuthin' to do with SF or other big city problems. ..... Why do you think people steal so often? There have been major drug production busts right across the Bridge in scenic Marin woodlands. Maybe some of the apes from Planet of the Apes started it when they escaped across the GG Bridge to begin with. There must be some truth to that, since a lot of human mutants were certainly the end result.
Beware Matt - the apes were last seen headed north!
The plot line had them escaping SF over the GG into the redwoods. If it had been west LA they arrived at, they would have turned around and surrendered, since it would have been worse than where they came from.
I was watching an interview that George Santos gave on a Brazilian talk show in which he recounted having been mugged in NY and the muggers took his shoes. And so I am wondering if I should leave both my camera and my shoes at home when I visit SF, it being a big city and all. Then I read about some of the stuff found on the sidewalks in SF and thought I might risk wearing shoes, but not risk taking my camera. In fact, I thought about taking two pairs of shoes just in case I got mugged, so that I would have a backup pair.
I was watching an interview that George Santos gave on a Brazilian talk show in which he recounted having been mugged in NY and the muggers having taken his shoes. And so I am wondering if I should leave both my camera and my shoes at home when I visit SF, it being a big city and all. .
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