 A recent court case signaled another win for the cannabis industry over federal and state law enforcement who seize cannabis cash.
The case started about a year ago, when an armored truck left Misouri, transporting $165,000 from the cash profits of a state legal medicinal marijuana business. The money was being driven to a credit union in Colorado which would accept the funds, and where cannabis sales are fully state legal. However, to get there, the delivery had to go through Kansas, where cannabis is not legalized. The Kansas authorities confiscated the cash, and federal prosecutors in there argued that it was lawful because the cash originated from cannabis sales which are in violation of the U.S. Controlled Substances Act. Now, wihout explanation, Prosecutors announced the $165,000 in seized cash will be returned. Prosecutors’ issued a brief which was just five sentences long, and did not elaborate on their decision to drop the case. This case is similar to another one, from April 2022. In that case, the U.S. Department of Justice said it would give back $1.1 million to an armored car company for funds seized in November of 2021, in exchange for the armored car company to drop their federal lawsuit against the Justice Department, the FBI and the DEA. While this case concerned cananbis cash being transported across state lines, it’s important to remember that cannabis itself cannot be. One Rhode Island-based cultivator, Mammoth Inc., has been ordered to pay a $10,000 fine after transporting it’s award winning buds across state lines. The grower took some cannabis to compete in an event at the New England Cannabis Convention (NECANN). The competition was held in Boston, across state border from the cultivator’s home of Rhode Island. The good news is that Mammoth Inc. won the top prize for thier THC flower strain. The bad news is that the state’s Office of Cannabis Regulation learned about the violation after Mammoth posted about their win on its Instagram page. Comments are closed.
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