Missouri’s elected auditor began investigating the state’s oft-controversial cannabis industry earlier this month.
First-term Auditor Ryan Fitzpatrick, a Republican, confirmed to the Missouri Independent that his office is looking into the various state and local agencies involved in awarding marijuana business licenses to ensure the estimated $1 billion industry is being regulated “in a manner that is efficient, accountable and transparent.”
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Auditors from Fitzpatrick’s office first met with officials at the Department of Health and Senior Services on Aug. 2, the news outlet reported.
The audit fulfills a campaign promise Fitzpatrick made last year when he said he opposed an adult-use legalization initiative – voters approved the measure last November – and pledged to probe the industry if elected, the Independent reported at the time.
“I don’t like a government-mandated monopoly,” he told the news outlet last September, referring to the initiative granting automatic adult-use licenses
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