The U.S. Cannabis Council (USCC) announced on August 19 that it has named Khadijah Tribble to function the group’s new CEO. Tribble succeeds former USCC CEO Steven Hawkins, who led USCC because the group was first based in February 2021.
“We thank Steven Hawkins for his integral function in launching USCC, and we’re thrilled to welcome Khadijah Tribble’s to the function of CEO at this crucial juncture for the hashish trade,” said Jessica Billingsley, chair of USCC and CEO of Akerna. “She is deeply revered for her management, experience and wide-ranging expertise and is well-positioned to advance our mission of ending prohibition and creating an equitable, values-based trade.”
Tribble based Marijuana Matters in 2020, and the group serves as a hashish training and advocacy incubator. She additionally served as CEO of the Marijuana Coverage Belief, which helps develop and run DEI (Range, fairness, and inclusion) applications within the hashish trade.
Tribble usually centered on honest and equitable insurance policies on behalf of marginalized communities all through her profession, and in addition serves on USCC’s DEI Task Force. She holds a grasp’s diploma from Harvard College’s John F. Kennedy Faculty of Authorities.
“USCC is centered on securing crucial reforms on this session of Congress,” Tribble tells Excessive Instances. “My chief precedence is doing the work to make that occur, with the understanding that the banking invoice will broadly make our trade safer and extra equitable, and expungement will meaningfully enhance the lives of numerous People with hashish information.”
Tribble continues, “These concrete wins are the stepping stones we have to attain our final aim: complete federal reform that deschedules hashish whereas fostering an equitable, inclusive trade.”
USCC’s mission is to enhance authorized entry to hashish—however in an equitable and values-driven method, advancing hashish legalization on the federal and state ranges. The group additionally promotes restorative justice for communities hit the toughest by the Conflict on Medicine.
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Earlier this yr, USCC launched the DEI Process Power with leaders in regulation, enterprise, and civil rights, partnering with the Congressional Black Caucus Basis to create an internship program for Black faculty college students and up to date graduates at main hashish corporations and organizations.
Steven Hawkins, former CEO of the USCC, left his function gracefully because the group unveiled a strong briefing and advert marketing campaign in assist of the SAFE Banking Act.
On July 27, Reps. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), in addition to Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) joined Hawkins for a briefing in assist of federal banking reform.
Dennis Brown, whose son Jordan, was murdered throughout an armed theft of a dispensary in Tacoma, Washington was featured in one of two new video adverts offered by the USCC through the occasion.
“My son Jordan was the final word loss,” Brown says within the video. “He bought his life taken as a result of we don’t give these companies the chance to make use of bank cards. It ought to have been all bank cards and no money. My son graduated from faculty, he was an artist, he was working to complement his revenue, and had an exquisite life. Leaves a really massive void in my life.”
The second video within the marketing campaign exhibits small hashish enterprise house owners in Washington state who have been the targets of a worsening pattern of crime.
The USCC calls itself “the voice of America’s regulated hashish trade,” with enterprise members from lots of the largest hashish corporations within the nation, in addition to leaders in hashish coverage and felony justice reform.