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Home 🌿 Cannabis Jobs 🌿 Vancouver pot seller’s criminal past, and more evidence of Hells Angels in dispensary business, alleged in court documents 🌿Vancouver pot seller’s criminal past, and more evidence of Hells Angels in dispensary business, alleged in court documents
Donald Briere’s conviction record goes back to 1972
VANCOUVER -- Recent court documents allege a Vancouver-based pot shop kingpin has a lengthy criminal record, has been selling pot to 16-year-olds and claims to have been threatened by the Hells Angels.
The information is contained in a police application for a warrant to raid Weeds Glass + Gifts at 2916 West 4th Ave. near Macdonald Street, which is run by Donald Briere.
The revelation is second this month illustrating the involvement of organized crime in the pot dispensary business.
It is illegal in Canada to sell marijuana in stores. But faced with a proliferation of dispensaries claiming to sell medicinal marijuana, Vancouver has chosen to regulate them pending the outcome of a court case to decide how marijuana is distributed to legitimate medical marijuana users.
The city says regulating will help them cut back on the numbers of dispensaries and weed...
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