ROBBERS GET $20,000 IN CASH AND POT

Some Potheads Just Got A Dream Score.

Two people robbed a medicinal marijuana store in the Richmond district
of about $8,000 in cash and roughly $12,000 worth of pot, police said
Friday.

``They stole their weed and their money,'' officer Larry Murdock said.
``One went in, and the other one drove.''

The heist happened just before 7 p.m. Thursday at the Hemp Center on
Balboa Street. While two employees were in a back room, one robber
entered the store and jumped over the glass counter, breaking it. He
surprised the workers, pointed a nickel-plated revolver at them and
ordered them to fill a black duffel bag with money and then empty the
display case of its marijuana.

He ordered them to the floor, then fled, hopping into the getaway car.

It's the first time the Balboa Street store has been robbed, said Sash,
one of the two employees who were there. Sash, who declined to give his
last name, said the Divisadero medicinal marijuana outlet has been
robbed three times.

``Right now, we have enough to get by,'' he said of the store's
supplies. ``And hopefully, in about two weeks to a month, we'll be back
on our feet.''

Police said they had no suspects.