Steve Robinson

They call that diversion and inversion.

That's within a tracked side of the program.

So it's very, very easy to manipulate what the government sees or what the computer program that tracks your inventory sees.

But in Maine, our medicinal program doesn't even have that tracking program.

So within the existing legal marijuana system, there are all kinds of loopholes.

And the Chinese are very skilled and very adept at exploiting these loopholes.

To give you a concrete example,

In the beginning of Maine's experience with triad weed, there were some individuals who came up to Maine.

One of them was Johnny Woo.

Johnny Woo comes up to Maine, speaks great English.

He rents a facility outside of our state capital.

He's growing marijuana there.

He gets his medicinal marijuana license using his Massachusetts driver's license and purports to be complying with all of the rules.

But he, using his approved marijuana card, can go around to all of these other grows and grab their illegally grown marijuana and then bring it to dispensaries and offer it to them and say, oh, no, no, no, this is legal.

I grew it.

See, I'm legal.

This is my licenses.

Pay no attention to the fact that all this flower looks different and it's all in different baggies.

And you can know just based on common sense that it didn't come from the same grow.

But I've got my license.