>help him negotiate a wholesale cannabis transaction in Illinois, where pot is legal. He had a buyer — a cannabis manufacturer in need of pot — so he went on LinkedIn to find a cannabis seller. Hoxworth was openly conducting an interstate drug deal on LinkedIn.<p>I'm not sure what the author thinks "interstate" means but this is not it. The person they are writing about wants to find cannabis for sale in Illinois for a buyer in Illinois, that is <i>intra</i>state not <i>inter</i>state.