Michelle Reddish, who has served as chief working officer of the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority for the previous 12 months, has been nominated to guide Rhode Island’s newly created hashish company.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary is scheduled to think about Reddish’s nomination to move the state’s Hashish Workplace, the Rhode Island Present reported.
Gov. Dan McKee, a Democrat, nominated Reddish for the position, which pays $162,270 yearly, based on the Present.
If permitted, Reddish will oversee the administration of marijuana use and the industrial market in Rhode Island.
She would report on to the state’s Hashish Management Fee, a three-member panel that regulates and points marijuana enterprise licenses.
The fee was shaped a few 12 months in the past.
Rhode Island legalized leisure marijuana in Might 2022 and launched adult-use gross sales that December, offering first-mover benefit to present medical marijuana dispensaries.
Within the first full 12 months of mixed adult-use and medical marijuana retail, Rhode Island operators generated $105 million in gross sales.
Regardless of exceeding expectations, cultivators in Rhode Island have been pressuring native authorities to open extra shops amid a glut of stock.