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sl8

(16,245 posts)
Fri Mar 31, 2023, 08:58 PM Mar 2023

Vermont cannabis grower pays heavy fine after posting Instagram video of New York delivery

https://vtdigger.org/2023/03/28/vermont-cannabis-grower-pays-heavy-fine-after-posting-instagram-video-of-new-york-delivery/

Vermont cannabis grower pays heavy fine after posting Instagram video of New York delivery

By Fred Thys
Mar 28 2023




Devon Deyhle of Tall Truck cannabis in one of his grow rooms in Peacham on Monday, March 27, 2023. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger

Asmall Peachham cannabis grower has had to pay a big price for a promotional video he posted to social media.

Devon Deyhle, owner of Tall Truck, a Tier 1 indoor growing operation of less than 1,000 square feet of cannabis plants, posted a video of himself on Instagram to promote his cannabis.

“It was a great, great video, but it wasn’t worth it,” he said. “That’s for sure.”

In the video, which he recorded in early December and which he has since taken down, Deyhle gets out of a vehicle and enters a storefront in Manhattan that was not licensed to sell adult recreational retail cannabis.

“It was basically a spot where you could go and buy your cannabis and then it had a smoking lounge out back,” Deyhle said.

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Vermont cannabis grower pays heavy fine after posting Instagram video of New York delivery (Original Post) sl8 Mar 2023 OP
No NYC penalties? MichMan Mar 2023 #1
win some lose some stopdiggin Mar 2023 #2
I wish our nation would get over the "Mary Jane" phobia. It seems once we walkingman Mar 2023 #3

stopdiggin

(12,817 posts)
2. win some lose some
Fri Mar 31, 2023, 09:28 PM
Mar 2023

the subject seems to have a fairly philosophical take on the incident (along with a, perhaps somewhat casual, outlook as far as the laws?)

Deyhle is philosophical about the experience.
“You make your bed, you sleep in it,” he said. “You pay for your mistakes.”

walkingman

(8,332 posts)
3. I wish our nation would get over the "Mary Jane" phobia. It seems once we
Fri Mar 31, 2023, 09:45 PM
Mar 2023

get a notion in our head (reefer madness) we just cannot get over it. I think it might be generational. The same people that freaked out in the 60's and 70's seem to be still freaked out and those of us that actually indulged (and inhaled) know it is a farce. YMMV

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