The Massachusetts Hashish Management Fee just lately introduced a number of appointments so their Hashish Advisory Board, the members of which can examine and make suggestions to the Fee concerning the regulation and taxation of marijuana within the state.
The Massachusetts Hashish Management Fee just lately introduced a number of appointments so their Hashish Advisory Board, the members of which can examine and make suggestions to the Fee concerning the regulation and taxation of marijuana within the state. The board will reportedly encompass 25 members with 5 appointees made by the Governor, 5 appointees by the Treasurer and Receiver Common, 5 appointees by the Lawyer Common, and 10 ex officio members with experience and data related to the Board’s mission (1).
The latest announcement of 5 board members got here from Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg (2,3). “I’m happy to nominate these members to the Massachusetts Hashish Advisory Board,” stated Treasurer Goldberg (2,3). “I’m assured they are going to have a significant influence on the regulation of the hashish business throughout our state.”
Treasurer-appointed members are required to have experience in hashish cultivation, hashish retailing, hashish product manufacturing, laboratory sciences and toxicology, and offering authorized providers to hashish companies. Treasurer Goldberg’s new appointees and reappointments to the Hashish Advisory Board are (1–3): Amanda Rositano, an knowledgeable in marijuana product manufacturing; Dr. Alan Balsam, an knowledgeable in laboratory sciences and toxicology; Dr. Marion McNabb, an knowledgeable in marijuana retailing; Michael Dundas, an knowledgeable in marijuana cultivation; and Laury C. Lucien, an knowledgeable in offering authorized providers to marijuana companies.
Amanda Rositano is the principal of Rositano Methods, a hashish enterprise consulting agency targeted on constructing a extra inclusive and accountable hashish business, and former president of NETA (Parallel, MA), the place she served as a key member of the start-up and management group that led the launch of the state’s medical marijuana program and efficiently transacted the primary authorized adult-use sale of hashish east of the Mississippi.
Alan Balsam, PhD, MPH, is an Adjunct Affiliate Professor at Tufts Medical College (Medford, MA) and Boston College College of Public Well being (Boston, MA). He retired after 21 years as Commissioner of Public Well being in Brookline. Previous to that, he served as Director of Elder Well being on the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Well being. He’s a founding member of Neighborhood Servings, the medically tailor-made meals supplier in Massachusetts and sits on its Board of Mentors.
Marion McNabb, DrPH, MPH, is the President of Hashish Heart of Excellence (CCOE), INC, a Massachusetts-based 501c3 nonprofit group that conducts citizen-science-focused inhabitants research and applications within the areas of neighborhood engagement, medical hashish, adult-use hashish, and social justice within the hashish business. The CCOE serves as a digital useful resource and community of hashish business professionals, teachers, policymakers, healthcare suppliers, customers, and sufferers who goal to interrupt the stigma and advance social justice within the hashish business. McNabb can be a member of the Hashish Affected person Care editorial advisory board.
Michael Dundas is an entrepreneur, legal professional, and investor within the regulated hashish business. From 2012 to 2019, Mr. Dundas co-founded and was the chief govt officer of one of many largest medical hashish corporations in Massachusetts. He joined the Hashish Advisory Board at its inception in 2017 and sits because the Chair of the Hashish Business Subcommittee. Mr. Dundas at the moment heads Navigaire Advisors, LLC, a enterprise and authorities consultancy specializing in advising leaders and innovators on easy methods to enhance operational, monetary, and regulatory efficiency throughout the regulated hashish sector.
Laury C. Lucien is a Massachusetts marijuana legal professional and entrepreneur. Ms. Lucien is the CEO of Main Bloom, LLC, an organization that has secured two host agreements and one particular allow to function Marijuana Institutions within the Commonwealth. She is a Founder and Managing Member of GreenLight Enterprise Options, LLC, a complete consulting agency that helps marijuana start-ups navigate the marijuana business. She is a companion in Chill Hill Bean Co., LLC, a craft genetics firm primarily based in California. She can be an adjunct professor at Suffolk College Legislation College, the place she teaches the varsity’s first Hashish Legislation course. She sits on the Boston Bar Affiliation’s Hashish Advisory Committee and sat on the Advisory Board for the Massachusetts Leisure Client Council.
For a whole record of the Hashish Advisory Board members, please go to: https://masscannabiscontrol.com/about/cannabis-advisory-board/.
References
- https://masscannabiscontrol.com/about/cannabis-advisory-board/#treasurer-and-receiver
- http://reverejournal.com/2021/10/27/treasurer-goldberg-announces-appointees-to-cannabis-advisory-board/
- https://www.masslive.com/cannabis/2021/10/these-5-experts-have-been-appointed-to-the-massachusetts-cannabis-advisory-board-including-former-neta-president-amanda-rositano-and-laury-lucien-of-major-bloom.html
