We have several speakers onboard for our Empire State event on May 20, including Dasheeda Dawson, cannabis czar for the City of Portland, Oregon, and Ngiste Abebe, president of the New York Medical Cannabis Industry Assn.
In the absence of federal approval and oversight, every state has its own labeling requirements.
“What I am doing at this stage is setting the bar so that labeling and packaging meets a certain standard,” Nathan said.
Phil Murphy signed in February “does a good job and gives the Cannabis Regulatory Commission a lot to work with,” Nathan said.
At one time, a cannabis product in the Colorado market looked like a Kit Kat bar.
Unlike some other state’s cannabis laws, New Jersey’s allows people to use cannabis in their free time without retaliation from employers.
A Colorado lawmaker last year introduced a bill that would protect off-duty cannabis use for a number of employees, but it has not moved.
They include jobs at high-risk construction sites and critical infrastructure facilities, transportation jobs that fall under federal requirements, law enforcement officers who carry firearms and those subject to the Railway Labor Act.
Parts of the law regarding employee drug testing are also on hold, only becoming operational once the Cannabis Regulatory Commission establishes its rules and regulations.
The cannabis industry often provides projections on the billions that are made by the adult-use and medical market.
An estimated $4.6 billion in annual cannabis sales happen in New York alone, the majority of which is driven by that very same market, and the integration of that market into a legalized one is an absolute must, says Dasheeda Dawson, the Cannabis Health Equity Movement .
“I’m proud to support the Legacy to Legal education series because it brings Black and brown entrepreneurs who’ve been working in the shadows to the table so that they can be part of New York’s adult-use market.
“Cash out, cash in,” said Bridgewater, who will also be speaking at the Friday conference.
“Legalization allows us to run legitimate businesses and be part of the industry that we helped create,” Bautista said.
Other industry power players who are scheduled to speak include, Jessica Gonzalez of Minorities for Medical Marijuana, Faye Coleman, Founder & CEO of Pure Genesis, Dr.
In this Q&A we talk about legalization, consumer education and social justice.
It’s not just legalization and economic opportunities that come out of this, but once in a lifetime opportunities to right the wrongs of the War on Drugs to deal with and confront the cost of failed policy with proactive measures to address that.
In this time when Covid-19 has hit state budgets so hard, what state can afford to send that tax run revenue out? I think that’s a huge dynamic, especially in densely populated states on the East Coast.
We started in Washington state, we were one of the first states to legalize and we are now grappling with how to bring equity back into the equation.
I look at that and say the East Coast has an opportunity to say ‘we’ve learned from Europe, these older states, we can build equity into our system.
If you think about that, we sit across the entire industry and we believe that there’s room for everyone and what we believe we have is a platform and technology tools that actually enable us to bring everyone together and make everyone available as a choice.
Here, this Q&A covers what it’s like for legacy industries to jump into cannabis and what each can learn from the other as the space grows.
A: It’s such a boom time, so many people are getting into it and if they don’t start off with some decent software to help them keep a handle on things, then that growth is going to overwhelm them and something is going to give.
A: There’s so much new business, people getting started for the first time, you’ve got to have a system to get going.
Sales are going crazy in the cannabis world and that’s obviously going to expand as COVID winds down.
A: The government strongly encourages some of those systems because they can get the reports that they want.
A: As the market matures, companies grow and they see new opportunities they want to chase, having a core system in place to give the management team visibility into ‘this is what’s working, this is what’s not, more money on this, this thing over here is costing us more, we need to get a better handle on our supplier cost, this particular manufacturing or growing process has taken twice as long as we thought it would, we’ve got quality problems with this particular product that we need to take a look at.’” All of these things can be measured and if you can measure it, you can fix it.
Reports would be issued every two years on the impacts of legal marijuana on state economies, health, criminal justice and employment.
Tahir Johnson the host of Cannabis Diversity Report podcast, which has included its fair share of New Jersey power players and was previously the Business Development and Diversity Equity & Inclusion Manager at the National Cannabis Industry Association, has now stepped into the U.S.
“With the new legalization of cannabis in New York and neighboring states, cannabis knowledge and education will be in high demand and extremely popular as people begin to navigate the legal cannabis landscape and find ways to be a part of the predicted record growth.
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