The fate of a former Whitehorse butcher whose shop supplied THC-tainted jerky to unsuspecting customers — some of whom ended up with severe cannabis intoxication — is now in the hands of a judge.
The Crown and defence gave their closing submissions Thursday in the trial of John Pauch, who was charged in 2021 with one count of distributing or selling cannabis without a licence under the territorial Cannabis Control and Regulation Act.
Pauch was the owner of now-defunct butcher shop Off The Hook Meatworks, which in December 2020 faced a recall of its house-made jerky after four people showed up at
