I'd bet a lot of money that someone related to, friends with, or owed a big favor by, one of the officials that would have had to sign off on this is deeply involved in the local weed industry.
Between the insane capital required and level of asinine compliance stuff and box checking you need to do to get into the legal weed industry more or less precludes those people from being "easy targets". Your local dirt mover is going far less likely to be able show up in court with a "and that's exactly where each dollar bill came from" accounting than your local weed grower.
Between the insane capital required and level of asinine compliance stuff and box checking you need to do to get into the legal weed industry more or less precludes those people from being "easy targets". Your local dirt mover is going far less likely to be able show up in court with a "and that's exactly where each dollar bill came from" accounting than your local weed grower.