Law Enforcement: Mexican Drug Cartels May Target Colorado Pot Shops

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1/11/14

 

Legal pot shops in Colorado may serve as a trojan horse for the Mexican drug cartels as reported by Joseph J. Kolb for Fox News:

 

 

Denver DEA office spokesman Albert Villasuso said with some 50 retail outlets in operation, the agency can only monitor if, how and when the cartels decide to move in to the legalized retail industry in Colorado. "What is quite possible is that cartels will hire straw owners who have clean records who can apply for a license, then sell large quantities both legally and on the black market," Villasuso said. "We still don't know what the fall out will be but when there is this much money involved the potential is great for groups to want capitalize."

 

 

After the repeal of Prohibition the Mafia continued to have its heavy hand in the bar trade by using clean names to serve as business fronts, and even to this day wise guys sometimes have undisclosed interests in watering holes which may be stocked with stolen or untaxed liquor.

 

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