The Dark Side of Digital Weed: Unraveling a Nationwide Online Sales Network A Vancouver man's arrest in March 2023 for using multiple bank cards to withdraw cash from an ATM seemed like an isolated incident, but it marked the beginning of a years long investigation into a nationwide online sales network of illicit cannabis and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
As investigators dug deeper, they uncovered a complex web of numbered companies, bank accounts, and electronic money transfers designed to disguise funds generated by these underground operations.
The scale of this operation is staggering: more than $1. 5 million was transferred between November 2024 and January 2026, utilizing thousands of e transfers to dozens of accounts.