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Cigarette wholesalers in Massachusetts are trying to cleverly persuade state officials to let them in on the business of marijuana when recreational pot sales launch in 2018.
According to a report from the Boston Globe, the companies responsible for handling every aspect of Bay State’s tobacco sales are hoping the state will help them establish a similar scam on the sale of marijuana. These businesses want secure a deal where every pot producer in the state is legally required to distribute cannabis products through their channels.
“My members are willing to collect all the taxes on behalf of the state and stamp any marijuana product being distributed for sale,” Paul Caron, executive director of tobacco trade group the Northeast Association of Wholesale Distributors, told the news source. “Rather than reinvent the wheel, let’s use the most successful, proven encrypted tax stamp program we have: the one assigned to cigarettes.”
But marijuana advocates are not at all interested in the idea of tobacco companies dipping into the cannabis trade. They believe this sector is simply trying to mimic the strong-arm tactics of the alcohol trade.
Jim Borghesani, a…
