Gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried relinquishes marijuana holdings after Free Beacon report – IOTW Report

Gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried relinquishes marijuana holdings after Free Beacon report

WFB: A Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate who has fought throughout her career to legalize marijuana is liquidating her marijuana dispensary stake of almost $200,000 following a Washington Free Beacon report.

Florida commissioner of agriculture Nikki Fried, who promises to legalize recreational marijuana if elected governor, holds a stake of roughly $183,000 in Trulieve, the state’s most profitable medical marijuana provider, according to her most recent financial disclosure. But Fried on Wednesday told the Orlando Sentinel she is in the “process of liquidating” her Trulieve shares.

“There is no conflict,” she said. “I made it very clear to the people of the state in 2018 that I came from the industry. That is what got me into my activism, my desire to not only expand the medical marijuana program, but also get to legalization.”

Fried’s financial holdings have drawn scrutiny in the past. The Florida Commission on Ethics in 2021 found probable cause that Fried violated state law for failing to disclose around $400,000 in lobbying income, a charge that Fried’s team said it wants to appeal. more

8 Comments on Gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried relinquishes marijuana holdings after Free Beacon report

  1. Looks like the ghoul look-alike has no understanding of the term ‘conflict of interest’. Pretty sure she’s all in it with fellow drug pusher and unelected governor of NY Kathy Big-Teeth Hochul whose permissiveness across the board allowed the non-arrest non-prosecutorial sales, buying, using, injections, and addictions to (illegal) trafficked heroin which is often laced with fentanyl, her describing of such use and addictions as “empowering” with paper posters advocating the dangerous OD-worthy poisons on paper posters hung up all over the place by Hochul and HHS.

  2. My wife who suffers constant pain from a number of maladies signed up for medical marijuana. We went to the initial interview with an MD to get the authorization and he spent roughly 5 minutes with us and proclaimed her eligible. We were then sent to an assistant who got her vital information for issuance of the card to use at the dispensary. He looked at me and asked if I wanted a card too as care giver so I could shop for my wife if she was incapacitated. As I paused and looked at him quizzically, he said “Yeah, I see what you mean. There may be a minor loophole here.” In any event, we learned quickly never to go to the dispensary on a Friday afternoon or the day before a holiday. It’s an all-cash business and business is good. I wonder how many other political insiders got in on the ground floor of this gold mine. Oh yeah, you have to get your eligibility renewed every six months with a commensurate fee of course. I am not anti-marijuana because my wife does get some benefit from it. I am though very anti-politician. On a positive note, the personnel at the dispensary are the mellowest people in the county.

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