Having founded 4Front Advisors in 2011, Kris now serves as president of 4Front. Prior to forming 4Front, Kris served as director of client services for CannBe, a pioneer in developing best practices within the medical cannabis industry. Kris has dedicated his career to reforming the nation’s misguided drug policies, having served as associate director of NORML from 2000 to 2005 and executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy from 2006 to 2009. Kris relays lessons learned from that experience in his monthly column, Activist | Capitalist.
Current cannabis cultivation, production, and distribution remains siloed state by state. As cannabis regulation is beginning to shift, we now have businesses and companies with access to fairly large amounts of capital operating in states across the U …
Heading toward 2020, the globe has widely recognized cannabis as something worth considering in new and positive ways. Even the World Trade Organization agrees that further research on the production, uses, and benefits of cannabis deserve attention. W …
When considering how we should be approaching this, there are a few things that really jump out at me. First off, particularly having come…
Advocacy and CapitalismThese ideas are not necessarily mutually exclusive. If we get the capitalist part right in the cannabis industry,…