Tyler Klimas, executive director of the Cannabis Compliance Board , said he wasn’t surprised by the demographic breakdown in the report, which largely mirrored the demographics reported last year.
This year’s report, conducted pursuant to CCB regulations required by AB533 from the 2019 legislative session, found that 69 percent of license owners, managers, board members and officers identified as male, while 61 percent of that group identified as white — only small differences from the previous demographic survey.
More than 29 percent of Nevadans are of Hispanic or Latino origin, according to the bureau, a significantly greater percentage than the 13 percent of owners, managers, board members and officers who identified as being of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin.
“The cannabis industry is a multibillion-dollar industry.
More than 41 percent of employees identified themselves as female, a percentage that was approximately the same as the last survey.
Though the board received more responses this year , the response rate among card holders industry-wide dropped significantly from 56 percent to 42 percent.
Klimas hopes to improve the response rate by including the demographic survey as part of the registration process for cannabis agent cards, which holders must reapply for every two years.
Some companies are taking on diversity as a corporate goal.
And then there’s some sadness with it, because very often I have been the only one in that room,” she said at the panel.
The regulations for consumption lounges are also still in the public workshop process.