David Turner

Your grow operation is 45 minutes from the nearest town. No grid power. Spotty cell service. The fencing meets DCC requirements on paper, but anyone with bolt cutters and 20 minutes of darkness can get through it. You know you need cameras. You know DCC requires surveillance. But every security company that’s called you back […]

Your cameras are pointed at the front door. Your alarm is set every night. You upgraded the locks after the dispensary down the street got hit. And your inventory numbers still don’t add up. The count is off by a few hundred dollars this week. Last month it was more. Metrc logs show products that

North Hollywood, April 2025. Masked suspects smashed through a dispensary on Hartland Street at 3:50 AM. Bags filled in under 90 seconds. Gone before LAPD arrived. All on HD camera. A month later, The Woods in West Hollywood — co-owned by Woody Harrelson and Bill Maher — got hit by five masked suspects. Crystal clear

You just got the notification. DCC is scheduling your security inspection — or worse, they already showed up and you’ve got 14 days to fix what they found. Knowing how to pass a DCC security inspection comes down to getting a handful of technical details right. And most of them are the ones your installer

You’re paying somewhere between $15,000 and $30,000 a month for security guards. You know the number. It’s one of the biggest line items on your budget after rent and inventory. And the last time you got hit, it happened at 3:47 AM — six hours after your guard went home. That’s the math problem every

You’re deep into the build-out. The lease is signed, the architect is drawing up the floor plan, and your licensing consultant is walking you through DCC paperwork. Somewhere in that stack is the DCC-LIC-018 — the Security Procedures form that makes your new dispensary security setup the first thing the state evaluates before approving your