John Bolduc is superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol. MARKUS: But Brauchler says there are no recreational stores, and that's still the case for the vast majority of the U.S., especially in the South and the East Coast. MARKUS: And in late May, the biggest bust of them all - 80,000 plants, 2 tons of finished cannabis product, all of it destined for out of state for the simple economics of it.īRAUCHLER: Because you take a thousand dollars' worth a pound, I guess, of marijuana out here, and it's about four to five thousand bucks out in Florida.
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So you got to wonder, how do you walk around in there without feeling like you're in that movie "Children Of The Corn" or something? Brauchler recalls one bust in a 55-and-older community a few months ago.īRAUCHLER: Ultimately, they pulled out, I think, it was a thousand to 1,100 plants out of one home. MARKUS: And these illicit grows are often found in suburban homes and expensive neighborhoods. It's a scene that's played out at dozens of locations across the metro area today. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: They're busting down doors and seizing marijuana plants. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: This one east of Colorado Springs along Ellicott Highway. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: El Paso County sheriff's office busting another illegal marijuana grow operation this morning. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Today, Colorado announced a massive marijuana bust years in the making, with charges from racketeering.
All of that, Brauchler says, makes this a great place to hide a black-market operation.
And for those who do grow illegally, sentencing is lenient. People can grow small amounts themselves. MARKUS: Brauchler says that's thanks to legalization. GEORGE BRAUCHLER: I've never seen the black market for marijuana as robust and as expertly cultivated - forgive that pun - as I have right now. He's been a prosecutor in Colorado for decades. From Colorado Public Radio, Ben Markus has our story.īEN MARKUS, BYLINE: You'd think it'd be hard to surprise George Brauchler. The financial incentive to break the law is just too great. Cops admit they will never come close to eradicating the problem. Marijuana is legal in the state, but it is illegal to take it across state lines. Have done fairly well.Cannabis is one of Colorado's most infamous exports. So, how does the market tend to perform during this holiday period? The folks at Bespoke Investment Group say that stock markets, such as the S&P 500 index The dearth of volume around the holiday makes sense, given that Thanksgiving is typically the busiest travel day of the year, according to the U.S.
Overall, trading activity on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the Friday afterward are usually a fraction of normal, non-holiday trading periods. But the following year, exchanges opted to shutter markets three hours earlier, at 1 p.m. Eastern close for the Friday after Thanksgiving in 1992, two hours earlier than the normal 4 p.m. exchange operators - the NYSE, American Stock Exchange and Nasdaq - initially called for a 2 p.m. However, there’s no early closure for the markets on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving in the U.S. Eastern close for Treasury markets, such as those that trade the 10-year Treasury Eastern on Friday, while the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends a 2 p.m. owned New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq
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