Las Vegas Pot Home Problem Tied To Foreclosure Crisis

Reporting from Las Vegas— The Ballard house was as unassuming as any in the stucco outskirts of Las Vegas: a two-story box the color of an oatmeal cookie. Police charged inside one night searching for a domestic violence suspect. Instead, they smelled something skunky.

Read the whole story: Los Angeles Times

Comments

[HazelRah1980]

07:45 PM on 11/15/2011

At least someone is making use and money of the empty homes.

[dcom158]

05:44 PM on 11/15/2011

pot seems to make most people mellow , if we ever needed more mellow people in the history of the world now is the time .

[jsgaetano]

04:07 PM on 11/15/2011

Turns out the "Invisible Hand of the Free Market" is holding a joint.

[iStraight]

02:44 PM on 11/15/2011

with new surveillance technologies... most places that grow pot
indoors do release a signature heat mode ... even hand held instruments are available
you can even tell how many people are there in a house ....unless the place is on fire
and distortions occur ...
However....
You will " NEVA " stop whatever is going on.... the money's too darn good
and unless it's legalised.... it will continue... and even worse

[bluefloridia]

12:54 PM on 11/15/2011

Bad laws are irrelevant.

[Mister Grumpy]

12:17 PM on 11/15/2011

It should be legalized and taxed........ we spend untold millions per year fighting something the general public wants......... did our politicians learn nothing from prohibition?

[OutAtFirst]

10:02 AM on 11/15/2011

You should have a pretty good clue what's going on if there's tin foil on all the windows and the electric meter is spinning like a top.

[johnmichpeters]

11:54 PM on 11/14/2011

We need to end this prohibition. Pot can be managed through health services better than paying for prisons, attorneys and drug enforcement agencies.

[NOSOCIALNETS]

08:47 PM on 11/14/2011

Want to defund the Mexican Kill Cartels? Want the Police concentrating on child abuse and other criminals? Want to lower your taxes? Make pot legal.

If you don't want pot legal then you must be in favor of sending huge amounts of money to Mexico!

[bynddrvn5]

08:39 PM on 11/14/2011

Not the first criminal enterprise to take over foreclosed or vacant homes.

Perfect target for organized crime, good chance the criminals won't get caught.

People have used vacant homes for parties, strip clubs, drug dens, prostitution, identity thieves, and so on. NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/nyregion/foreclosures-empty-homes-and-criminals-fill-them-up.html?_r=1

[Beernuts]

08:19 PM on 11/14/2011

jump in the swimming pool! the mosquitos won't mind!!

[AlfredE69]

07:51 PM on 11/14/2011

Re-legalize it or give me a justification why it is not legal!

[Patricia Russell]

07:05 PM on 11/14/2011

You can't have crime without opportunity," said William Sousa, a criminologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "And all those empty homes present an opportunity for criminal activity."

Nature abhors a vaccum.

[JoeBlough]

06:40 PM on 11/15/2011

Maybe firemen should start burning down empty houses as a preventitive?

[PuSencer]

06:56 PM on 11/14/2011

we can't find billions to feed the hungry, clothe the cold, house the poor, heal the sick, educate the young, care for the old or provide safe retirements, but we can find billions to make sure people don't smoke a few joints.

"What a world!"
-The Wicked Witch of the West

[fumes]

06:45 PM on 11/14/2011

pot..

is friendly foliage!