Gov. J.B. Pritzker faced a monumental hiring decision in 2019 when he sought an official to oversee the new recreational cannabis program — the so-called pot czar.
Pritzker needed a public servant who could administer day-to-day details of the massive new initiative that involves seven state departments governing regulation, cultivation, licensing, public health, criminal justice and more.
The person also had to understand community- and state-level impacts of such a societal shift.
Pritzker chose Toi…
