I didn’t anticipate the scope of the state’s failure in the cannabis licensing process. Instead of being the Gold Standard, our story is about to become a cautionary tale. Having spent almost three decades as an Illinois lobbyist and government affairs consultant, I am very familiar with the sausage-making process. I have developed what I call mental callouses; a defense mechanism that reminds me not to expect too much from the cumbersome, opaque and inconsistent performance of state government…
Read the guest editorial in Crain’s Chicago Business by Mark Peysakhovich, September 6, 2020
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