It's ironic that Leah and Travis Maurer face legal jeopardy for allegedly not growing marijuana.
Travis Maurer moved to Portland after a 2013 felony conviction for growing pot in Missouri. He and his wife, Leah, organized a campaign team and secured funding for the 2014 ballot measure that successfully legalized recreational weed in Oregon.
Last week, the Maurers, now well-known marijuana advocates, were sued for $1 million by a former business partner, Randy Quast—a trucking tycoon who himself moved to Oregon from Minnesota after a weed bust, and became the treasurer of Portland's chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Quast says the Maurers tricked him into believing they were growing weed when they weren't.
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