# You want some marijuana with those maraschino cherries? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-some-marijuana-with-those-maraschino-cherries/713868 "2015-02-28T18:33:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-some-marijuana-with-those-maraschino-cherries/713868/1 "2015-02-28T18:33:01Z")
From the “you cannot make this shit up dept.”: [N.Y. maraschino cherry tycoon kills self as inspectors discover pot business](http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-maraschino-cherries-marijuana-20150225-story.html) ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-some-marijuana-with-those-maraschino-cherries/713868/2 "2015-02-28T18:54:08Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > From the “you cannot make this shit up dept.”: [N.Y. maraschino cherry tycoon kills self as inspectors discover pot business](http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-maraschino-cherries-marijuana-20150225-story.html) Wow. Sad, really sad. Was going to make a joke about the Maraschino Mafia upon first glance of your OP title…but no. And yes, one of those “WTF?” moments. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-some-marijuana-with-those-maraschino-cherries/713868/3 "2015-02-28T22:23:41Z")
I feel terrible but I just have to --------- sorta popped his own cherry in a lot of ways. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-some-marijuana-with-those-maraschino-cherries/713868/4 "2015-02-28T22:54:09Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I feel terrible but I just have to --------- sorta popped his own cherry in a lot of ways. You really had to take a pot shot at him? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-some-marijuana-with-those-maraschino-cherries/713868/5 "2015-03-01T04:51:17Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You really had to take a pot shot at him? What can I say? I’m a bad seed. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-some-marijuana-with-those-maraschino-cherries/713868/6 "2015-03-01T16:36:48Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > From the “you cannot make this shit up dept.”: [N.Y. maraschino cherry tycoon kills self as inspectors discover pot business](http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-maraschino-cherries-marijuana-20150225-story.html) There is more to this. This isn’t just “I can’t live with the shame”… as possibilities go, that one is a long shot. “Investment in equipment” was how he described recent business changes and he had the cherry business and the separate pot business. I don’t know the Brooklyn drug world, but as a money laundering investment, I could see this guy’s “pot partners” fronting refit money with interest as part of their partnership… loans that might not need the paperwork of a bank, but loans where you never name your banker no matter what. Look, for all I know, Redhook is nothing like that old story written by Henry Hill in Goodfellas: “But now the guy’s gotta come up with Paulie’s money every week, no matter what. Business bad? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? Fuck you, pay me.” All I really know is he had a legitimate business. It had ups and downs. Its cash flow seemed solved. It was a front for an illegal pot growing and stolen goods storage operation. He committed suicide. He can’t testify against who he was in business with. He left a family that doesn’t know his former business partners. Look, its like LEGO pieces; I’m just seeing what could be built with them. “[He was survived by two adult daughters from his first marriage, and a toddler from his second wife — who was separated from Mondella](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/cherry-company-owner-kills-drug-operation-found-article-1.2127732).”