FILE — This Aug. 22, 2019, file photo shows medical marijuana plants being grown before flowering during a media tour of the Curaleaf medical cannabis cultivation and processing facility in Ravena, N.Y. New Yorkers can now possess and use up to 3 ounces of cannabis under a legalization bill signed Wednesday, March 31, 2021, by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, while sales of recreational-use marijuana won’t become legal for an estimated 18 months until the state draws up regulations.(AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)
The state’s new Office of Cannabis Management held a wide-ranging “Cannabis Conversation” online Thursday evening.
Tremaine Wright of Brooklyn, the chair of the state’s cannabis control board, explained the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act approved in 2021 and answered questions emailed by the public. She made clear the state has a way to go before it is ready to offer cannabis sales licenses.
The act puts “equity, inclusion and justice at the forefront of the new cannabis industry we are building,” she stated near the start of her presentation. Wright explained that she would be using the word “cannabis” instead of referring to it as marijuana, as that word “has a long history of being used for racial profiling.”
Wright said the control board she chairs oversees the Office of Cannabis Management. “With legalization, New York shifted from a policy centered on law enforcement and persecution, to a policy that centered on public health,” she said.
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FILE — This Aug. 22, 2019, file photo shows medical marijuana plants being grown before flowering during a media tour of the Curaleaf medical cannabis cultivation and processing facility in Ravena, N.Y. New Yorkers can now possess and use up to 3 ounces of cannabis under a legalization bill signed Wednesday, March 31, 2021, by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, while sales of recreational-use marijuana won’t become legal for an estimated 18 months until the state draws up regulations.(AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)
The state’s new Office of Cannabis Management held a wide-ranging “Cannabis Conversation” online Thursday evening.
Tremaine Wright of Brooklyn, the chair of the state’s cannabis control board, explained the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act approved in 2021 and answered questions emailed by the public. She made clear the state has a way to go before it is ready to offer cannabis sales licenses.
The act puts “equity, inclusion and justice at the forefront of the new cannabis industry we are building,” she stated near the start of her presentation. Wright explained that she would be using the word “cannabis” instead of referring to it as marijuana, as that word “has a long history of being used for racial profiling.”
Wright said the control board she chairs oversees the Office of Cannabis Management. “With legalization, New York shifted from a policy centered on law enforcement and persecution, to a policy that centered on public health,” she said.
