“It doesn’t strike me that his opinion regarding the industry is what lead to his changing jobs – he was already changing jobs. Mason Tvert, MPP communications director, said Riffle “seems to have issues with the industry” but doesn’t think neither those issues nor the Pledge 4 Growth campaign are why he left the organization. “I felt for the last few months the industry was kind of dominating the legalization movement’s work in general, and MPP’s specifically.” “I think it is a pretty stark example of the kinds of things I was concerned about and that were the reasons why I left,” he said in an interview with the International Business Times. 420 percent of their gross revenue to the organization. That same day MPP launched their Pledge 4 Growth campaign – asking “industry leaders” to donate. 6, he said “ industry is taking over the legalization movement and I’m not interested in the industry.” However in a separate email to his colleagues, dated Nov. John Conyers’ (D-MI) office, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. It seems Riffle has landed that job on the hill – he resigned from MPP for a senior legislative assistant position in Rep. “As it happened, I fell in love with the issue and my coworkers, so when it took off I stayed along for the ride longer than I anticipated.” MPP seemed like a nice landing place to put in a couple years of interesting policy work and meet people who could be my bridge to the hill,” Riffle wrote in an Oct. “I left my job as a prosecutor to come work for MPP six years ago because I eventually wanted to work on the hill. Dan Riffle describes his exit from the Marijuana Policy Project as a “long-term career move,” allowing him to work on other legislative interests such as tax and education public policy – rather than a move based on discontent with MPP or “the industry” despite some reports.
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