A windfall for the cannabis shops that obeyed the regulations.
You mean paid off the right public officials.
Yep.
When you choose to get into a heavily regulated business you can make a great deal of money but you have to be careful not to take short cuts.
You will be closely watched, they pay people to check up on you.
"Potential charges relate to marijuana sales exceeding limits set in state law"
Imagine if you opened the paper and read that 26 Ford dealerships were closed and their employees and owners arrested for selling more cars than limits set in state law allowed? Would you think, 'that's insane in a free country', or would you think, 'that's a windfall for the crappy dealerships that people didn't want to visit, but that got a law passed limiting how many cars their competitors could sell in a year'.
I prefer property rights, liberty, and free enterprise to state laws about who can sell how many weeds after submitting the requisite forms. But freedom is scary, so we need more rules, and more cops, and of course more taxes to support them. But the taxes aren't enough, so lets find some civil forfeiture too.
Is that really what we want?