Florida legalization activist and political consultant Ben Pollara told me: “Trulieve is medical marijuana in Florida.”
Prohibition-based regulations keep weed availability unstable and influence cannabis policy in places where the drug is, on a certain level, legal.
CEO Kim Rivers is a lawyer whose specialty was mergers and acquisitions. Cannabis insiders have in mind Trulieve when discussing shitty weed as a probable consequence of corporate pot’s looming dominance.
Rivers’ husband J.T. Burnette, a prominent real estate developer, was scheduled to report to prison on Jan. 23. After years of being investigated over his political connections, Burnette was convicted of bribery and sentenced to three years of incarceration.
Trulieve and its top executive are not part of the case that sent Rivers’ husband to federal prison. It does confirm a widely held belief that multistate operators (MSOs) power statehouse and city hall conversations: With the feds punting on legalization, they largely set state and local policy through intense lobbying and political contributions.
Speaking of the legal marijuana market, Bonita Money of the National Diversity & Inclusion Alliance (NDICA) said that MSOs “are trying to control everything. They’re tied in politically, so that they get first dibs on all licenses. By the time they do give opportunity to anybody else, whether it be on a social equity level or a general level, it doesn’t matter—those…
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Florida legalization activist and political consultant Ben Pollara told me: “Trulieve is medical marijuana in Florida.”
Prohibition-based regulations keep weed availability unstable and influence cannabis policy in places where the drug is, on a certain level, legal.
CEO Kim Rivers is a lawyer whose specialty was mergers and acquisitions. Cannabis insiders have in mind Trulieve when discussing shitty weed as a probable consequence of corporate pot’s looming dominance.
Rivers’ husband J.T. Burnette, a prominent real estate developer, was scheduled to report to prison on Jan. 23. After years of being investigated over his political connections, Burnette was convicted of bribery and sentenced to three years of incarceration.
Trulieve and its top executive are not part of the case that sent Rivers’ husband to federal prison. It does confirm a widely held belief that multistate operators (MSOs) power statehouse and city hall conversations: With the feds punting on legalization, they largely set state and local policy through intense lobbying and political contributions.
Speaking of the legal marijuana market, Bonita Money of the National Diversity & Inclusion Alliance (NDICA) said that MSOs “are trying to control everything. They’re tied in politically, so that they get first dibs on all licenses. By the time they do give opportunity to anybody else, whether it be on a social equity level or a general level, it doesn’t matter—those…
