About cannabis legalization is how it brought the pot trade out of the underground and into the economy proper to be taxed and regulated.
After conspiring with a group of Canadian businessmen to manipulate the price of a marijuana company and then dump shares on unsuspecting U.S. investors, Dr. Avtar Singh Dhillon, a politically connected Sikh community leader, met an associate of the notorious West Vancouver lawyer Fred Sharp in a Vancouver restaurant to collect $30,000 cash, handed over in a paper bag.
The gritty exchange was just one of the covert methods Dr. Dhillon used to hide ill-gotten gains, including receiving payments to his daughter’s autism treatment provider, and stashing funds in an offshore account in Singapore.[…]
This testimony was offered during a September 2023 jury trial in Boston, in the case Securities and Exchange Commission v. Frederick L. Sharp, et al.
Dhillon, a British Columbia-educated physician turned cannabis entrepreneur, has since been convicted, mitigating his sentence as a key witness in the SEC’s fraud case against Sharp and his co-defendants.
It is still being sold outside the government control and cheaper than in the government controlled stores. No store overhead, no taxes, hey of course it can be sold cheaper.
Is this actually true? My impression is that weed prices are about half of what they were 10 years ago, and the quality is better now too. It would be very difficult to profitably compete with the legal weed stores now IMO.
My understanding is that the black market in cannabis is mostly confined to bulk purchases, because the weed stores can only sell a customer a maximum of 28 grams at a time.
Liberals and Justin Trudeau connected to crime and drug dealers. Again.
Someday the media might find out about this…
They already know, they are receiving brown bags of cash the size of leaf composting brown bags to keep quiet.
uhuh. whut about the flood of Liberals getting into the market and WHUT ABOUT julian fantino former opp COMMISIONER responsible for the imprisonment for how many pot heads,flipping, and GETTING IN ON IT?? he obviously was aware how lucrative.
why was there NO ban on the likes of that shytfcuyk COP uber hypocrite??????
What a concept! Making money by selling drugs to addicts. Now the Government is the dealer. Wait until nicotine is added to the product. It’s more addictive than heroin.
Same truth holds, illegal cigarette sales are huge, why buy the gov taxed stuff for $25 a pack when you can get a carton for $35?
Lookit all the scummy Liberal politicians getting a photo-op with the criminal(s). Fitting. In particular there’s one obnoxious windbag (John Aldag) who loves getting his mug in those. He’s a career trough-swiller at at least two levels of govt plus he’s a retired Fed civil servant – Triple Swill! BTW these scumbags paved over about 20 acres of prime farmland in Aldergrove BC right by the border, used off and disturbed neighbourhood for several years before being shuttered unceremoniously a few years back. Big warehouse sitting empty on former hayfields now. PPS – they never hired any locals, just FTWs mostly from C. America. So Liberal of them!
Does it mention SLitherman as well?