MARYLAND DEMOCRAT CAUGHT IN CANNABIS PAY-TO-PLAY SCHEME

   Democrat Maryland Assemblywoman Cheryl Glenn is ending 2019 in jail after she was caught accepting over $30,000 in bribes from Marijuana legalization interests. The Federal Indictment alleges that Glenn sponsored legalization legislation with an eye to benefiting clients and rig the licensing system on their behalf.

   WUSA-9 in Washington, D.C. reported that  "Ms. Glenn met with a business person at a restaurant in Baltimore to discuss medical marijuana issues. During the conversation, Ms. Glenn allegedly said that people had asked her how a medical marijuana business, without any high-priced lobbyists, had been awarded a marijuana growing license. Ms. Glenn allegedly responded, 'They know God, and Cheryl Glenn.'" 

   As we've noted before, legalization is mostly a big-money corporate scam. We wrote here back in March:

  "The industry maintains 50 paid Beltway lobbyists---2/3 of whom are 'revolving door' ex-government employees. Among the leading donors are The New Federalism Fund which, despite its name, is a coalition of major Colorado marijuana growers. Another is The National Cannabis Industry Association; yet another is The Cannabis Trade Association. Pallia Tech (now known as Curaleaf) is a major medical marijuana cartel---even traded in the Canadian Stock Market. Surterra Holdings is another American based cartel headed by Beau Wrigley, heir to the chewing-gum company fortune. These various dispensary syndicates attracted a whopping $8 billion in transnational investments during the first three quarters of 2018. "

   When Maryland legalized, these Corporate interests quickly applied for licenses; but Glenn used her position to block their applications. She claimed that Maryland-based businesses and 'people of color' weren't fairly represented in the selection process---all the while taking payoffs to farm these lucrative contracts to her own constituents. By closing the entire State market off, these local firms would have had a monopoly. 

 Glenn may have thought that she had godlike powers in politics; but Wall Street plays on a whole different level than the Maryland State Assembly. In the Deep State's pay-to-play systems, the laws actually do get enforced when one steals---from the wrong people. My intuition tells me that Glenn was probably hoping for a bigger bribe from Corporate Cannabis; but after all the cash they'd already sunk into Maryland legalization they weren't in the mood for playing games. This, of course, is speculation: but one has to wonder who else would have been in a position to have tipped the FBI off about Glenn's activities. 

  It shouldn't be surprising that there's corruption in the industry; it was birthed in the Black Market and the rotten apple hasn't fallen far from the tree.