Steve Robinson

It was all a lie.

None of it turned out to be true, but they radically underestimated the size

of the market there.

They thought it was going to be $300 million, $400 million, $500 million.

It's probably like $5 billion on its way to $10 billion, because we're growing the weed to supply the demand for the rest of the country, or at least the part of the country that Oklahoma and California aren't supplying.

And when a state legalizes, like Ohio has done recently,

you basically break a dam that was holding back access to billions of dollars.

And the kinds of people that that attracts, whether it's Chinese cartels or American cartels or pharmaceutical companies or big corporate players, are maybe not the kind of people, not the most ethical operators.

And, you know,

people will do crazy shit for $10,000.

What would you do for a billion?

It's a big problem that Maine was totally unprepared to grapple with.

And we did not have the immune system to deal with the kind of forces that were unleashed when we legalized marijuana.

And the Chinese cartels were just one of the examples willing to come in here and just totally ransack the state.

You know, I mean,

Yeah, I think Matt raises an interesting point, but it's not because those deaths aren't happening.

It's because they're not being tracked.

Like, you know, if we were to do a random survey of just small town police departments and ask them what's 70H, how many would be able to tell you what 70H is?

I would say it'd be very low.

A very low percentage would be able to tell you what it is.