It sure doesn't hurt to have friends in "high places"...Among the “strategic considerations” outlined in emails was a concern that the release of information might affect the stock price of Tweed, which had gone public on the Toronto Stock Exchange that week.Which made much less of an impression on actual line coppers than paper-pushing brass...
Officers balked at the company’s assertion that it had invited the RCMP to inspect the shipment. Briefing notes indicate that in the week prior to the seizures, RCMP received “'several calls' from airline charter companies enquiring about the “legitimacy of transporting 1500 lbs of marijuana.”**********
“Tweed never came to us, the airline did,” Const. Shane Holmquist wrote to colleagues.
The seized marijuana, which caused a rotting smell in RCMP storage, was later destroyed.
CURIOUSLY RELATED: Tweed Marijuana, Tweed Marijuana...
...that sounds so familiar...
MONTREAL — Liberal Party of Canada CFO Chuck Rifici has become a multimillionaire in just a few months thanks to his stock-traded medical marijuana company, QMI Agency has learned.
Documents show Rifici's initial investment in Tweed Marijuana Inc. has so far sprouted into an $18-million bumper crop.
Rifici, a Franco-Ontarian, is a staunch supporter of Justin Trudeau, who has advocated that marijuana be legalized.