Metrc, the nation’s leading seed-to-sale tracking software provider, is “participating in a conspiracy” that allows unchecked “illegal interstate” marijuana sales, a former company executive is claiming in a federal whistleblower lawsuit.
Marcus Estes, who worked as an executive vice president at Florida-based Metrc for about a year, alleged in a lawsuit filed on April 4 in U.S. District Court in Oregon that the company fired him after he shared what he believed was “evidence that Metrc was violating California and federal law, and enabling others to violate California and federal law.”
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Among Estes’ claims is that Metrc does not identify questionable activity in its data to regulators despite its $40 million-a-year contract with California requiring the company to “flag irregularities.”
The lawsuit
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