[Noah930]

Maybe I'm dense, but I don't get the premise of this scheme.

Pot shops make lotsa money, but banks won't allow pot shops to open business accounts, so pot shop owners have no place to safely store money (and conduct normal business banking activities like credit, payroll, etc.). So, pot shop owners now flush with cash go buy expensive cars at auction to then sell via auction in another state, thereby laundering the money.

OK, but now the pot shop owners still have bags of cash with no where to put it and no bank willing to extend them normal business banking accounts. How does that solve the banking dilemma of the pot shop owners? Where are they going to put all this money, still? The money is now in the name of the pot shop owner, as opposed to the pot shop, itself? What's the IRS going to do when they notice that transaction?

Instead of all this hassle, why wouldn't the pot shop just be able to dole out the money to the owner as profit (like any other business) and let the owner deposit the money in a private (not business) banking account?