A Washington State cannabis company is suing a Vancouver business and two people from Richmond for $2 million for not supplying grow operation equipment as per a 2022 agreement.In the claim, the company alleges Mingguo Liu and Jing Zhou both doing business as Botanic Workshop Ltd., and Botanic Workshop Ltd. did not facilitate production of a fully automated cannabis cultivation facility. USA Cannabis alleges breach of contract., saying it suffered losses of more than $2 million.
USA Cannabis alleged a March 13, 2022, agreement between the parties provided for a production facility with two sets of equipment at $4 million each. For the equipment, USA Cannabis agreed to pay $300,000 within a week of the deal and $900,000 before shipping and customs clearance. Six million Chinese renminbi, or RMB, would go to a designated Chinese fund account before the equipment shipped 3.2 million RMB was set to be paid after the first batch of seedlings grew to finished plants. Botanic was also supposed to provide a Chinese value-added tax invoice for the RMB funds.