Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cuff.

Real crime stories.

I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

The story we're going to report on today, you know, when it was first reported,

it's been about a week now.

Here's the thumbnail that we posted on YouTube.

Marijuana dispute led to California Massacre 5 arrested, which is a great thing because the police

have done an incredible job in this case. However, when it was first reported, most of the

media reported it like it was this huge mystery, except there were several factors in this case

that led me to believe,

let anyone that was in law enforcement believe that this was no accident,

this was no mystery,

this was no group of people being followed into the desert and attacked for no reason.

This smelled of the drug trade from minute one. And whenever you see

unbridled violence, you can bet it has something to do with the drug trade. Add into that

organized crime, potentially in this case, although one criminologist, I don't know how what an expert this person

that says it's not the cartel I don't know how he knows so soon when even the police don't

know that for sure it's definitely organized crime right and then what we find out everyone's

baffled because what is this about marijuana?

Marijuana is legal in California. However, there are some politics to this when we take a deep look at it.

And the politics are that the government, the state of California, has taxed legal marijuana so much that the illegal marijuana can come in cheaper and get a bigger share of the market than actually the legal marijuana.

So what does that do?

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