Illinois’ Stumbling Dispensary Scoring System – Emails and documents from Illinois cannabis regulators reveal how the state’s dispensary license scoring system really worked.
Scoring for Illinois’ 2020 cannabis dispensary applications was conducted by about 40, briefly trained gig workers who were paid $35 an hour and worked from home for a subcontractor to global accounting firm KPMG.
As of last August, Illinois craft grow, infusion, and transport license applications had gone through two rounds of discrepancy vetting, state emails show. Seven months later they’re still not done.
Last week’s Grown In reporting roiled the state’s cannabis business community and will figure into at least two cannabis lawsuits against the state currently underway.
Grown In obtained a tally of scores from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation through a Freedom of Information Act request.
