State regulators in Maryland are looking to deflate THC levels by taking action against lab shopping. This October the Maryland Cannabis Administration is joining forces…
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How CSQ helps operators identify — and avoid — the cannabis industry’s bad actors Fraud has become a fact of life in the cannabis industry.…
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Cannabis con man Justin Costello, who lied about being a billionaire and seeing combat in Iraq, among a multitude of other falsehoods, pleaded guilty on…
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A couple of issues ago I wrote about Justin Costello, a scam artist based in Seattle. At the time of my writing, Costello has been…
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How conman Justin Costello made his way through the Washington cannabis industry Justin Costello was well-known in Washington’s cannabis industry. He was a big personality…
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Last month’s issue of Marijuana Venture featured a cover story on Women Grow. I’m no expert on its business model, or how it’s helping women…
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I recently read a civil complaint filed in Washington State Superior Court in which a local couple alleges that a man named Justin Costello defrauded…
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The most common saying in the fraud fighting field is “trust is not a control.” This basically means that while you might want to trust…
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In 1872, two grizzled forty-niners walked into a San Francisco bank with a bag full of diamonds, claiming to have discovered the richest mining field…
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There have been a slew of enforcement actions against regulated cannabis companies engaging in alleged securities fraud, and the harm caused to investors could have…
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