Illinois cannabis regulators suspected “systemic diversion” at major multistate operator Curaleaf Holdings’ cultivation center in the state, a former high-level employee alleged in a recent lawsuit.
According to a July 29 complaint filed in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois by Matthew Kalmick, a former Curaleaf regional compliance director, state officials noted “a vast amount of unaccounted-for inventory” at the company’s operation in Litchfield, Illinois.
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In addition to “potential systemic theft,” Bresha Brewer, then the cannabis bureau chief at the Illinois Department of Agriculture (DOA), also “flagged numerous environmental, health and safety … concerns” including “unlicensed pesticide use,” according to Kalmick’s suit.
Rather than correct that “crisis” or address separate “ongoing non-compliance” at another Curaleaf location in North Dakota, company
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