The Florida-grown company, which is on track to post between $815-850 million in revenue in 2021 operates in 11 states.
Housed in a former physician’s office in a strip mall, the interior of the dispensary is a welcoming atmosphere that is part showroom, part doctor’s office.
A former mergers and acquisitions attorney from Jacksonville, Florida, Rivers, helped write Trulieve’s incorporation papers in the Sunshine State in 2018 and has served as the company’s CEO since.
Number one, that there wasn’t really a company at the time that was really taking a customer or patient-centered approach.
“I think that every state has to go through their own process …
In the early stages of approving licenses, medical cannabis received some pushback from the Monongalia County Board of Health that caused friction with the Monongalia County Commission.
Meanwhile, Rivers and Trulieve are constantly working to expand access to medical cannabis and have their own lobbyists who work with legislators in each of the states in which they do business.
Coronavirus vaccination clinics for Virginia Beach city employees were canceled through the rest of the year due to concerns over “improper dosage” of the Moderna booster vaccine provided, according to a city spokesperson.
The increase guarantees that health care will gobble up a big chunk of the recently announced Social Security cost-of-living allowance, a boost that had worked out to $92 a month for the average retired worker, intended to help cover rising prices for gas and food that are pinching seniors.