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In less than three months, recreational marijuana will be legal in Illinois with pot shops opening around the state. Last month, Gov. JB Pritzker named a new “cannabis czar” to oversee the implementation of the legal sale of weed.
Reset checks in with Illinois’s newly appointed cannabis regulation oversight officer about what the program will look like and what the state is doing to ensure it’s profitable, safe and equitable.
GUEST: State Sen. Toi Hutchinson, Illinois cannabis regulation oversight officer