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reporter: to operate your grow rooms. right. it s been a wild ride i ve got to tell you. we re not a bunch of stoners sitting around in tie-dye t-shirts smoking pot but a true american industry. there s over $3 million spent on that room as i m told from harry smith, from cnbc s marijuana country: the cannabis boom. hi. harry, talk a little about medicine man, which we just saw a little bit of, the most successful entrepreneur in the state. they have millions of dollars behind them. we have some idea of what they re doing right. tell us more about what they re doing right. one of the things they talk about, they call themselves the costco of pot. they grow really good pot and they sell it relatively cheaply to the rest of the market. they re in a warehouse. they re a distributor. no, no no. you go to their store. you go to their store. they re making twice as much money as they made a year ago. this store their place is in ....
Because they have done it over time. so all white people aren t equal, and i mean in their humanity, right. they re not equal in their ability to inform this protest in an intelligent fashion. we want allies to engage in the movement on all levels. you want less professional allies to engage. you want people who are honestly moved by the question going on to step and put their lives on the line too. you want that engagement you re making an argument to the country and you need different kinds of people to see different kinds of people making that argument. and this is not just a black problem in the united states. this is well you know de blasio said it in his speech but an american problem. an american challenge. if we see this as well when a black person is killed by a police officer, that s a black problem. if a latino person is killed by an officer, that s a latino problem, we re all in this together. and there are even good police ....
They preach but also willing to do something on a bigger scale than just their local community. here s a man who is comfortable saying i have something that can be shared with the nation. that being said the issue with policing is that this country is undergoing dramatic demographic changes. what we keep missing in this conversation about the police is they are changing too. yes. and somehow, the disconnect between who the communities that are served by policing and the officers themselves there s a complete short circuiting. patrick lynch of the pba, for example, stands in as a kind of century old representation of irish american authority in the body of working class men who rise through civil service ranks in the form of policing. yet somehow, that relationship to african-americans, toation-americans, to latino-americans, the very communities that are supposed to be served and represented are not shown by them. he is saying to the citizens of ....
The suffering, the disturbed, the injured, and tried to bring them comfort. you have heard the mayor s story, the lift. reminded me so much of my time as a young police officer in boston. we called it the same thing, a lift job. and i can remember hearing the mayor talk about it about the different times we would go to help the elderly. oftentimes, who were really just lonely. they needed a reason to call us. they needed someone to talk with. and i can still remember myself and my partner, henry, going on the lift jobs and having some of the same experiences that detective liu had. detective liu is the police that we want. but it s also in this city and in this country the police that we have. and for that and for how he died but for how he lived and performed his duty, for that i am so honored as has already ....
So proud to be one of you. we re cops. we hold the line. the thin blue line. we don t quit when things are hard. because when aren t they? we took this job to prevent crime and disorder. over the past 2 year2 years, this department has reminded the world of how that s done and how it can be done. the mission has not changed. the belief in possibility has not changed. and the much larger part of this city or this country, a much larger part than you think is proud of you too. there are people who need us. we will not abandon them. to do so would be to dishonor the memories of detective liu and detective ramos. it would dishonor the others killed with their partners. a lot of those partners were as different as detective liu and ramos. different races, different ....