Yesterday, we saw the legendary Jungle Boys raided by the police in Los Angeles at their flagship TLC dispensary.
According to accounts on both social media and directly from the Jungle Boys, the situation looks to have unfolded in downtown Los Angeles at their TLC dispensary. Apparently, due to some backlogged tax payments, the local police and CDFTA raided their weed shop and emptied the cash registers. Police, Highway Patrol, and uncover cops came in by the car and SUV load with weapons drawn. They detained the staff while counting up their on-hand cash that was seized.
Upon leaving, the cops were high-fiving with one another and cracking jokes about how lucrative the cannabis business must be. The original issue stems from taxes that had late charges in dispute due to COVID-19 delayed payment acceptances. It sounds like the government wouldn’t take the funds due to COVID-19 but then charged a late fee after the fact, which sounds like something I’d dispute as well. Well, I guess while in dispute, Johnny Law put on their full battle suits to come rob the bank.
What the Jungle Boys Had to Say
“Let me clear some things up on what happened yesterday. Sitting at TLC and we see Highway Patrol, Police Department under covers about 20 cars pull up first thought they were chasing someone into our building. After having guns pulled on us and being held we asked for them to speak to our attorney showed them proof we had a in appeal showed them emails and all the documents and they refused after being held for an hour we were informed it was the CDTFA and they where taking all of our money over a dispute we had on late charges. When they weren’t accepting payments during covid.
We were told to send an email and a fax to get an appeal hearing date we did that and have proof they received it, And our attorney and CPA were also in talks with employees that worked at CDTFA. This was over like 60 k in late fees penalties and interest. On the initial 130k CDTFA bill TLC gave CDTFA over 18 million last year. They came in with money counters and took every dollar in the building. While the cops asked us how much money they could make growing weed.🤬
After this ordeal they walked out and said business as usual. You can open back up. So we give these agencies all of our money over taxed and over regulated and this is what we get when we dispute a late fee. I’ve gone through every emotion and when I realized I pay all these people to do this shit to us I just can’t wrap my head around it. We are a legal complaint business, and this is how we get treated? The California Cannabis tax system is broken and we will all be out of business while all these agencies continue to get bigger every day. TLC is back open today and we will see where this all goes.
From the @JungleBoys Instagram Page
The Corruption of Legal Cannabis Continues
The RMR team has reviewed a lot of Jungle Boys strains over the years. We’ve also been big fans of their come-up in this space. Very rarely have we seen legacy guys from the culture build up an impressive brand and cult following. When you think of companies that “do it big,” they are for sure one of them; and they didn’t buy the hype, they grew it. From unique strains to just flat-out great takes on other breeders’ cuts, these guys are respected for a reason. Anytime you hit TLC in Los Angeles, you’ll see regulars alongside fans from all over the country that are visiting just to get the fire.
We need to protect groups like the Jungle Boys at all costs. As the inevitable commercialization and exploitation of legal cannabis grows, it’s important to have cultural leaders at the forefront of the industry to help ensure the legacy is kept intact as the industry grows. It’s a travesty to see a legal cannabis company like the Jungle Boys raided.
These guys have literally been dealing with robberies, federal agencies, and legal issues throughout the push to legalization and are now seeing the same thing from our own government. How ironic is it that cannabis is one of the most taxed businesses and their own tax dollars fund their harassment? This raid was excessive and seemingly without true causation based on reports from their lawyer. The California government is corruptly taking far too many tax dollars and then robbing a company like this. Utterly disgusting.
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