Money Laundering Bulletin
Going to pot – the cannabis conundrum
The sweetly aromatic, or, according to
taste, sickly whiff of marijuana is to be breathed on the streets of every
major city, in the West, certainly. Governments across North America and
Europe, conceding that to go on fighting the retail trade in the drug, at
least, is futile, are now struggling to regularise and regulate the business;
meanwhile, the billions of dollars generated, in cash, are looking for
accounts. MLB correspondents report on a confused journey -
Daniel Sekulich, from Toronto;
Liz Newmark, in Brussels;
Ed Zwirn, New York; and
Sarah Gibbons, in London.