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Catch up on what you may have missed. BECOME A MEMBER • Newsletters • MyForbes Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers   Jamel Toppin for Forbes Meet The Cannabis Industry’s Trump Whisperer Read Article Few executives in the cannabis industry have had more influence in Washington than Kim Rivers. The 48-year-old CEO of Florida-based Trulieve helped lead a multi-year lobbying campaign to push the federal government to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I substance, like heroin or LSD, to a Schedule III, like Tylenol with codeine.  In December, Rivers was at the White House as President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing then-Attorney General Pam Bondi to begin that process. And while it’s not a done deal quite yet, once the rescheduling is complete, it will be the most significant federal drug reform in nearly 60 years. “The laws are going to change,” Rivers says. “Momentum has been building. This has really been decades in the making.” Read the full story on how the Trulieve cofounder became one of the most powerful figures in the state-regulated marijuana industry, and keep scrolling below for more in-depth journalism from the Forbes newsroom. Chris Dobstaff Associate Editor, Newsletters Follow me on Forbes.com Must Reads America’s Top Architects: A Big Sur Cottage by California’s Studio Schicketanz Read Article This Sam Altman-Backed $1.8 Billion Startup Bets AI Can Get Drugs Through Clinical Trials Faster Read Article AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails Read Article How Forbes Compiled The 2026 AI 50 List Read Article How France’s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American Read Article The AI 50 Brink List Read Article Mercor’s 23-Year-Old Billionaire Founders Grapple With Employee Fraud And North Korean Infiltration Read Article Inside The Indonesian Starbucks Challenger That’s Betting On Affordable Premium Coffee Read Article How A Credit Card Fintech Resurrected Itself By Targeting The Superrich Read Article Most-Read From Forbes US Navy Supercarrier Set To Break Record For Longest Modern Deployment Read Article First Look At New Aldi Format Set To Rollout Across The U.S. Read Article The ‘Father Of AGI’ Warns Workers To Build 3 Skills Before Jobs Vanish Read Article Join Our Members-Only Event To celebrate America’s 250th birthday, Forbes ranked the greatest American Dream stories, from Abraham Lincoln to cover star Dr. Dre. Join our editors April 23 for a live discussion and Q&A about these icons of upward mobility and excellence in art, science and politics. Subscribe To Register Unsubscribe from Forbes Weekly. Manage Email Preferences My Forbes Account  |  Newsletters  |  Help  |  Privacy Forbes Media 499 Washington Blvd. Jersey City, NJ 07310 list_id:80484