Kurtis Hanna, a longtime cannabis lobbyist in Minnesota, said he doesn’t understand why the state’s second search for a permanent director was seemingly left unfinished. Hanna, a public policy and government relations specialist for the cannabis consulting firm Blunt Strategies, said he thinks entrepreneurs seeking business licenses deserve stable leadership.
It’s been a year since Gov. Tim Walz’s first pick for the job resigned, and an interim director continues to run the Office of Cannabis Management as it sets up the state’s recreational marijuana industry. Read More