Green Thumb Industries CEO Ben Kovler offered a bleak outlook on national marijuana reform and sharp criticism of federal agencies under the Trump administration during a recent earnings call.
“At the moment, it’s hard to think anything will fundamentally change given the new administration’s appointees who seem to be descendants of the ‘Just Say No’ campaign of the ’80s and early ’90s,” Kovler told analysts on a Feb. 26 call to discuss the Chicago-based multistate operator’s strong fourth-quarter and year-end financial report.
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He specifically called out Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 180-degree policy shift regarding cannabis.
A month ago, MJBizDaily detailed Kennedy’s apparent deference to the U.S. Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration regarding marijuana policy reform, including rescheduling, which is on
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