PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — For the past 13 years, Green Goddess Remedies Weed Dispensary has been a mainstay in Portland’s retail cannabis business. But after the latest robbery at gunpoint, the owner is considering permanently closing.
Around 10 a.m. September 14, two people dressed in black walked through the front doors of the shop at 5435 SW Taylors Ferry Road. General Manager Elle Lune was working alone that day.
“I froze, and I immediately stuck my hands up,” she told KOIN 6 News. “They told me, ‘Show me the money.’ They grabbed the back of my clothes and pushed me through the door.”
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Surveillance video captured the moments. Lune, her hands still up, opened the cash register. The thieves took the cash and pot products — and then demanded more…