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How a partially-covered license plate led to the DEA seizing $165K from Missouri pot shops
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Jonathan Shorman
@jonshorman
NEW: Law enforcement records provide new details about how the DEA came to seize $165k from a van traveling across Kansas carrying the proceeds of KC-area medical marijuana dispensaries
w/ @JeanneKuang #moleg
Marijuana plants about 7-10 days away from harvesting grow at Greenlight Dispensary’s cultivation plant in Kansas City. Missouri voters legalized medical marijuana in 2018 but the drug remains illegal at the federal level.
How a partially-covered license plate led to the DEA seizing $165K from Missouri pot shops
The case has drawn attention as an act of federal enforcement in an industry that many states have legalized.
kansascity.com
2:06 PM · Nov 11, 2021
Jonathan Shorman
@jonshorman
NEW: Law enforcement records provide new details about how the DEA came to seize $165k from a van traveling across Kansas carrying the proceeds of KC-area medical marijuana dispensaries
w/ @JeanneKuang #moleg
Marijuana plants about 7-10 days away from harvesting grow at Greenlight Dispensary’s cultivation plant in Kansas City. Missouri voters legalized medical marijuana in 2018 but the drug remains illegal at the federal level.
How a partially-covered license plate led to the DEA seizing $165K from Missouri pot shops
The case has drawn attention as an act of federal enforcement in an industry that many states have legalized.
kansascity.com
2:06 PM · Nov 11, 2021
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article255740831.html
All it took was a partially-covered plate.
When Dickinson County Sheriff’s Detective Kalen Robison pulled over a white Ford Transit van heading east on I-70 near Abilene in May, he justified the stop because a tag bracket was covering up the word “Colorado” on the plate.
The next day, Robison would pull over the same van, this time with the help of agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). They would find $165,620 inside.
The DEA’s seizure of the cash during a May 18 traffic stop has caught the attention of the marijuana industry in Missouri and nationally. The currency came from Kansas CIty-area dispensaries, which are legal under Missouri’s medical cannabis program. Those close to the industry are watching to see whether the episode represents an unusual one-off or portends a shift in the federal government’s posture after years of relative detente with pot businesses operating in accordance with state laws.
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