The Missouri Cannabis Trade Association describes David Brodsky as "instrumental in developing the Missouri microbusiness community" and a mentor to disadvantaged business owners.
In his cannabis consulting work, Brodsky is part of a group that charges up to $4,000 to help eligible applicants enter the microbusiness lottery. It's a program intended to help steer small-scale marijuana facility licenses to disabled veterans, those with lower incomes, and people with non-violent marijuana offenses. That price doesn't include the state's $1,500 refundable submission fee.
"We have also assisted clients who won licenses in lottery-based application systems in Ohio and Connecticut and have never had an application that did not meet the criteria to go into the lottery," Brodsky and his partners say on MOmicrolicense.com.
Yet in Missouri, microbusiness applications connected to Brodsky have repeatedly run into problems with state regulators. Of the 96 microbusiness licenses issued by the state through a lottery since the program's inception last year, Brodsky is connected to seven. And all of them are under investigation or facing revocation because the state questions whether a qualified applicant will actually be running the business.
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