Happy Easter, Peeps.

The news gets worse for Weedmaps as one of their clients who took part in this prepaid credit card payment system was recently arrested by the FBI and indicted by the US government on running an illegal marijuana ring and money laundering charges.  The computers and email accounts that dealt with Weedmaps are now all in Federal custody after being seized in a raid. The FBI and Department of Justice could share those hard drives and emails with the IRS, as well as the California state government and Cannabis Commission.

The ironic part of anti-pot rhetoric is that, minus ultra-conservative groups like Mormons and the Amish, they all enjoy alcohol at some level.  That could be a few beers at night, a glass of wine after the kids go down, tying-one-on on a Friday night watching the game or at the club, or any version of that scenario where alcohol is used to either escape “reality” for a few hours or “numb the pain” of reality for a few hours.

The plant remains classified as a psychotropic drug by the United Nations and remains illegal at the federal level in the United States, perhaps the most visible country currently moving towards more relaxed laws.