Cannabis companies appear to be following the lead of other major corporate players and are attempting to appease the Trump administration with strategic hires and financial contributions.
Moves that observers say look calculated to curry favor with a transactional presidency include a million-dollar contribution from cannabis multistate operators to a Trump political action committee and California’s biggest cultivator hiring a former ICE official and cozying up with a White House ally following a deadly immigration raid last month.
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Many of President Donald Trump’s critics say the White House has a boundless appetite to accept settlements, donations and other business transactions that amount to bribes.
Examples include Paramount paying $16 million to settle a lawsuit ahead of a pending merger, tech companies shelling out
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