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Who’s Afraid of ‘Big Pot’?

U.S. Attorney General William Barr (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

By Dan Mitchell
07/02/2020 02:21 PM GMT-0700
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Like so many recent events, an avalanche of other, more-pressing news largely buried the remarkable testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on June 24. John Elias, a senior U.S. Justice Department prosecutor told the committee that Attorney General William Barr had launched antitrust probes of cannabis companies out of animus for the business. 

Elias, a prosecutor in the antitrust division, said Barr, motivated purely by his "personal dislike for the industry," directed the division to investigate so many cannabis companies that the . . .

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