In early 2019, your wife and I met Attorney Blake Mensing at some totally lame cannabis mixer where we had to suffer through a presentation about something cannabis related. Amateurish as it was, your wife and thought it was worth it because we got Blake’s card, and he “specialized” in cannabis law.

In the fall of 2019, I called Blake to see if he might be willing to contact your wife and propose that your wife and I come to an early agreement and skip the part where I have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to sue her. Get this: she’d already retained him.

In fact, I don’t think there has been anything that Blake Mensing (or an attorney from The Mensing Group LLC, 100 State Street, 9th Floor, Boston) has missed out on relative to the HCA process with the Littleton Select Board or the special permitting process with the Littleton Planning Board on your wife’s or the Apothecary’s behalf.

I hate to keep harping on this, but I think it was a significant turning point when in May 2021, your wife loses the election to Chuck Decoste. Badly. I suspect this is when she thought, F. Littleton. I’ll just sell.

This almost happened, in late October/early November, 2021, with Sherry Gould as the go-between for your wife and Tom Porell. ($800k, breakfast meeting, you’re there)

So, here’s what I think happened. Soon after all the handshaking, your wife calls Blake, and says, “I’m selling the Apothecary for $800,000.00. Draw up the papers.”

Using an analogy of another heavily taxed, heavily regulated industry in the commonwealth, I’m going to guess Blake says something like: “Christine, people can’t sell liquor licenses. They can’t even transfer them without permission from the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission and the town where the liquor store is. What would make you think cannabis would be any different?”

But Blake wants to help your wife, right? He’s her lawyer. Her zealous advocate.

Now, I’m just spitballing here, but now that Blake knows your wife’s price, I think he mentions he knows of a Connecticut company that might be able to give her a “better offer.” (The million-dollar offer she wanted from the start, maybe.)

Well, I think a day or two goes by and Blake realizes that it’ll be a big hassle to change the corporate stuff with Botanicannics, Inc. It would be easier to start from scratch with an LLC, specifically and intentionally formed to “Apply for licensure from Cannabis Control Commission.”

On November 10, 2021, MRM INDUSTRIES files its Certificate of Organization for “Applying for licensure from the Cannabis Control Commission,” listing MRM’s principal office as 100 State Street, 9th Floor, Boston. MRM’s records will be maintained at 100 State Street, 9th Floor, Boston. All three managers listed (Masood Shaikh, Ron Malhotra, Miten Patel) use 100 State Street, 9th Floor, Boston as their business address. The very same address as Blake’s specialty cannabis law firm.

Oh, and Blake Mensing was the person who signed MRM’s Certificate of Organization under the pains and penalties of perjury as “The Person Forming the LLC”—forming, not “filing.”

On December 31, 2021, Botanicannics, Inc. was involuntarily dissolved by the Secretary of the Commonwealth or by court order. Involuntarily dissolved.

If you connect those dots, Matthew, what do you get?

TTYS,

Jkb

P.S. Oh, shit, sorry—

This important detail:

In September 2018, Blake Mensing is listed as the Resident Agent (above his home address in Holliston) and a Director of Botanicannics, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation in business to engage in “licensing, operations management, distribution.”

(Of what, comes to mind?)

And, its principal address is in Manchester, Connecticut.