Oakland Cannabis Sellers, Once Full of Hope, Face a Harsh Reality

by Michael Corkery for New York Times

“ In the early hours of Nov. 20, a group of 12 people, many of their faces obscured by sweatshirt hoods, streamed into Amber Senter’s cannabis manufacturing facility in East Oakland.

This is where Ms. Senter provides space to help social equity cannabis businesses get off the ground.

The robbers broke through the first door easily, security footage showed, then a second door and a third. Most of the cannabis product was locked in a cage, which the thieves couldn’t breach. Ms. Senter estimates that the damage totaled $20,000.

But when she called the police, they told her to fill out a report online. “Where are the police?” Ms. Senter said. “Why aren’t they helping us?”

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