The DEA says 18 percent of medical-marijuana-center owners have been convicted of felonies.
"This business seems to have an inappropriate number of people with criminal backgrounds involved as business owners," said Kevin Merrill, assistant special agent in charge for the Denver field division of the DEA. "I would be hard-pressed to find any other business group where their members have so many criminal violations, arrests and convictions."
I would imagine that most business owners are not trying to move a substance from DEA-targeted zero tolerance to legalization, either. The DEA is shocked, yes, shocked to find that people running cannabis centers have had previous arrests for the same.
Many of those will be weeded out of the medical-marijuana business Sunday when new rules take effect prohibiting anyone with a drug felony conviction or anyone with a felony sentence within the past five years from obtaining a medical-marijuana-center license in Colorado.
If only those same business people had created worthless financial instruments and sold them to unsuspecting investors. Then they'd be dictating policy to the Treasury Dept.
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