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Similarly, CNN’s hit show Inside Man featured Morgan
Spurlock working within Harborside, again giving
the nation a glimpse of a highly taboo industry. While
DeAngelo’s intentions for featuring Harborside in
mainstream media had to do with cannabis advocacy
and the spreading of public awareness, the television
programs partially attracted the wrong sort of attention.
In 2012, the federal government came down on DeAngelo
and Harborside with US Attorney Melinda Haag filing a
commercial forfeiture seizure injunction against the prop-
erty owner, claiming that the federal government would
seize the property if the property owner continued to rent
to Harborside. This tactic was used all over the country.
DeAngelo’s subsequent struggles to keep Harborside
open, as well as stay out of prison, lasted in a four-year
federal court battle. Finally, the Department of Justice
dropped its case with Harborside in May 2016.
Today, DeAngelo continues to be on the cutting-edge of
the cannabis industry in California and around the globe,
speaking at Oxford University in London; Barcelona,
Spain; and, in November, as a keynote speaker in Prague
at the EuroAmerican Cannabis Conference, taking a
pro-active approach to government policy and business
around the world. To this end, the Arcview Group is one
of the largest angel networks in the world assisting with
seed funding for some of the best and brightest entrepre-
neurs that the modern-day cannabis space has to offer.

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