It’s high time for New York to get the ball rolling on legal weed.
The state Senate late Wednesday confirmed a former Brooklyn assemblywoman and a prominent recreational marijuana advocate to lead the agencies that will regulate cannabis sales in New York, giving a major boost to the pot legalization process after ex-Gov. Cuomo held it up for months.
Tremaine Wright, a Democrat who lost her seat in last year’s primaries, earned confirmation to chair the Cannabis Control Board and the Office of Cannabis Management, which were formed as part of a bill that legalized recreational use of marijuana in New York this spring.
Chris Alexander, policy manager of Canada-based cannabis company Vill LLC, got the Senate’s thumbs up to serve as the executive director of the agencies alongside her.
Wright and Alexander were nominated to the pot posts by Gov. Hochul, who called the legislature back for a special session Wednesday to deal with the weed vacancies and the state’s expiring eviction moratorium.
Cuomo never nominated anyone to the weed agencies even though the state legalized marijuana in March. [Read More @ The NY Daily News]
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