Will Yakowicz

Senior writer @Forbes covering cannabis, gambling, psychedelics and billionaires. Previously @Inc

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How Zyn Conquered America @forbes https://t.co/Rhp7MJZ0gU

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@anandastrategy @Forbes Thank you, Hirsh!

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@rawkandrolling @Forbes it only took a few thousand years

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A German pharma company believes its newly approved painkiller derived from marijuana can replace opioids. Read my story in @Forbes

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Find my story on Vertanical and its billionaire founder Clemens Fischer here https://t.co/lGhSOZxHbd

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Read my story about the drug Exilby and its billionaire inventor Clemens Fischer @forbes https://t.co/lGhSOZxHbd

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Pharma company Vertanical's new botanical drug derived from marijuana has been approved in Germany to treat chronic pain, ushering in a new future for the medical applications of cannabis.

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Read my story @Forbes about how Nabis became the Amazon Prime of the cannabis industry https://t.co/FkcDsWEg9W

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Former Meta and Microsoft engineers Jun Sup Lee and Vince C. Ning built Nabis into the country’s biggest marijuana distributor, delivering $1.5 billion worth of weed to dispensaries every year. Now it’s blooming in a fourth state.

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Read about how cannabis executives like Kim Rivers lobbied President Trump to successfully reschedule marijuana as a less dangerous drug https://t.co/ACzp251aeJ

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Trump Administration Reclassifies Medical Marijuana As A Less Dangerous Drug @Forbes https://t.co/898NHio2V2

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Under the decisive leadership of @POTUS, this Department of Justice is delivering on his promise to improve American healthcare. This includes:

• Immediately rescheduling FDA-approved marijuana and state-licensed marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule IIl

• Ordering a new, expedited hearing with set deadlines, to fully reschedule marijuana

These actions will enable more targeted, rigorous research into marijuana's safety and efficacy, expanding patients' access to treatments and empowering doctors to make better-informed healthcare decisions.

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SCOOP: The Trump administration is expected to reclassify marijuana as soon as today https://t.co/i83PW0B0pz

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@betsykosheff @Forbes No. That's not how journalism works.

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Meet The Cannabis Industry’s Trump Whisperer @Forbes. For 420 this year, I profiled Kim Rivers, the CEO of Trulieve, who helped persuade President Trump to sign an executive order directing the US Attorney General to complete the marijuana rescheduling process.

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For all those weed nerds out there, here's the history of how 420 came to be, thanks to a few stoners in California https://t.co/fomwDmSaj8

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Full story here: https://t.co/ACzp251I4h

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While the industry is still waiting for the process to be complete, and even President Trump lamented about how the DOJ is "slow-walking me on rescheduling," it has taken a lot to get here. Read my story about Rivers' role in getting Trump to embrace weed reform.

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Check out the full list here: https://t.co/CtibFlUb4i

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Happy 420 to all who celebrate. Don't miss the fifth annual @Forbes 42.0 List, a collection of the most successful, innovative and influential entrepreneurs in America's $30B cannabis industry.