Team Pritzker owes would-be pot shop owners an explanation – Crain’s*

Growth in overall sales and tax revenue is slowing, largely because Illinois has far fewer retail locations per capita than other states. Meanwhile, the effort to give Black and Brown entrepreneurs a fair shot at potentially lucrative retail licenses has also been hobbled by bureaucratic delay. Now hey’ve hit another snag. The state of Illinois says the applicants can’t take on investors until they have their shops built out, inspected and open for business. Yet to build out those shops, some applicants need capital. Most banks still aren’t willing to lend to marijuana businesses because weed is still illegal on a federal level. Those who do lend are reportedly charging 18% to 20% interest rates.

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Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case

Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.

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