The acting head of the embattled state cannabis regulator is out this week amid struggles to enforce a crackdown on unlicensed marijuana business activity. Ocm interim executive director felicia a.b Reid and ocm deputy counsel james rogers will leave their positions by the end of the week, according to three people familiar with conversations between cannabis regulators and the second floor It was first reported by the capitol pressroom. The decision mandates unarmed inspections and statutory safeguards for lawful operators. A new york judge recently ordered an illicit cannabis business in brooklyn pay the state upward of $6 million, after its owner failed to comply with a prior order to disclose its financial.
Just as thursday’s cannabis control board meeting got going, it was interrupted by an exasperated applicant awaiting license approval.
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