Yeah I met mat in Toronto at the old expo a few years ago, he seemed like a real douche, a know it all type, very cocky, and his weed was shit. He was going on and on about how barb was so good, but the nugs he had of it looked like some outdoor (not saying it was, but it had that dark shitty look)
He is one of them greedy fucks, selling tons of seed, tumbling his weed before he sells it to the clubs, then pressing the keif into rosin, he is a real piece of work. All he has going for him is he has a really nice grow, but like you said if he owes 250K then that grow would be more of a burden then a joy.
who is this guy you mention that bailed him out?
as far as i know his 250k defense fund was not to be repaid by him but his partners at the vics aka founder phil loucas, interesting you mention the bud scuffing, the vics dispensary bud buyer chad was a merciless bud scuffer too, thats right folks after the vics "com[passion" society bought their weed chad would spend all day lightly bud scuffing all day long, he had all these little containers of full melt that should have been on the patients weed.
anyways these cons cooked up the idea of the vancouver island cannabis research institute or some bullshit name , they then fired all their mom and pop growers without notice and started growing their own shit with matt as their partner, so idiot matt who at that time had long hair goes into a home depot and wheels out with some bails of peat, fans , wire etc, and an off duty cop writes down his licence, boom the insittute gets busted as they had a licence for a tiny number of plant, well no problem if your big money makers like them fire up the expensive weed lawyers and file a constitutional challenge, yay 250k later they add a couple patients to each site, and matt is a hero?
meanwhile phat phil loucas shows his true colors and jumps over to evil tilray.
all i can say is all these supposed heros have made a ton of money along they way and always have bought their way out of trouble with endless legal funds, does the average mom and pop grower for these clubs get the same treatment hell no your on your own, they barely let you in the door after getting busted yet if your somehow hero matt, or other bogus types like ted smith and his crew, you buy yourself a constititurional challenge, meanwhile what happened to the little busted heros of the movement who couldnt afford a full on constitutional challenge, they end up losing their homes, families, my buddy ended up suicide , so HELL NO do not support or canonize these people they should be the ones put on trial in part when all this dirty shit comes to light, kinda like when a long war is over we get to find out who were that rat mole sharks and the PEOPLE can be the judge of them, whether they helped or hurt OUR cause.