It doesn’t take an Atlantic City casino owner to know that limited business opportunities bring about an environment in which “competition for those opportunities exceeds the bounds of propriety. That is, they encourage corruption, bribery and other excesses, a fact recognized by the FBI and alleged by lawmakers and members of the public as well as law enforcement in other states and cities.”
Cannabis Now
- Corruption allegations have emerged in California locales from Sacramento to Grover Beach. And as the industry begins to expand, issues of influence have come about in Illinois, Ohio and Florida.
Quick Hit
- “The past nine years have shown an increase in reported crimes at dispensaries overall. (The LAPD data, however, does not distinguish between licensed and unlicensed dispensaries.). For the first nine months of 2019, there were 115 reported crimes at cannabis dispensaries.”
Crosstown
