Trulieve Cannabis Corp. is the biggest marijuana company in Florida – and, to be clear, it is absolutely a Florida business.
That’s what Kim Rivers, CEO of the multistate operator, said in response to Gov. Ron DeSantis inaccurately labeling Trulieve as “some Canadian marijuana company.”
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DeSantis used his floor time during the Republican National Convention in July to rail against Florida’s adult-use marijuana ballot initiative, Amendment 3, which is heavily funded by Trulieve.
The governor is raising money to defeat the constitutional amendment.
‘One company, from Canada’
Adult-use legalization “is being driven by one company, from Canada,” DeSantis said.
“And they came into Florida from medical … and now they’re spending tens of millions of dollars to do that.”
DeSantis pointed to a
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