DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s top cannabis regulators are starting a private consulting business.
The marijuana coordinator for Gov. John Hickenlooper and the head of the state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division say they are leaving state government to offer their services to other clients.
Andrew Freedman was tapped by Hickenlooper to coordinate administrative agencies that oversee cannabis, from the state Health Department to the Department of Agriculture.
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Lewis Koski is head of the Marijuana Enforcement Division, which collects cannabis taxes and regulates companies that grow and sell it.
The departures announced Thursday aren’t unexpected. The governor’s cananbis coordination office was started two years ago as a short-term catch-all for the newly legal market. And Koski is not the first division chief to head into private consulting.
