Randy Quast, who chairs the National Organization for the reform of Marijuana Laws, known as NORML, had built a Minnesota trucking company and sold it for $40 million. Travis and Leah Maurer were prominent in the marijuana movement in Oregon and wanted to start a legal growing operation and dispensary there. They thought Quast was an “ideal partner” for their venture. Now they are fighting in Oregon court and Quast has filed for bankruptcy after the operation fizzled, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. He may owe as much as $5 million to his former business partners, he said in the bankruptcy filing last month. The partnership fell apart months after it started, and the Maurers countersued Quast after he sued them three years ago. The $5 million he may owe the Maurers is the largest debt listed in his bankruptcy filing.
