(This story appears in the upcoming January-February issue of MJBizMagazine.)
When then-U.S. Sen. Tim Walz announced his support for legalizing adult-use marijuana while campaigning in 2018 to become Minnesota’s next governor, Leili Fatehi and Laura Monn Ginsburg knew something had shifted.
The pair already ran Minneapolis-based Apparatus GBC, a public affairs consultancy that works on complex political and policy issues.
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“We only work on projects that are advancing social equity, environmental sustainability and creating fair economic opportunity,” Fatehi told MJBizMagazine during MJBizCon 2023.
“Cannabis legalization was well within the kind of issues that we care about, the kind of work we were known for.”
Shortly after Walz’s announcement, Fatehi and Ginsburg mobilized to form Blunt Strategies, a division of Apparatus that drove the
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