Nicole Stanton has checked many things off what she calls her “list of things to prove to myself”: leaving her small hometown in Utah; becoming an accomplished commercial litigation attorney; having a family; engaging in charity work with her husband, U.S. Congressman Greg Stanton; accepting an important role on the leadership team for the biggest marijuana-based business in Arizona…
Actually, that last one wasn’t on the original list. It wasn’t even within the realm of fathomability, Stanton says, until late 2018, when she didn t land a job running a nonprofit (she declines to name which one) and instead got a phone call from an old professional friend who was curious if she’d be interested in being a lawyer for a cannabis company.