{"id":336651,"date":"2021-09-09T02:59:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T23:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/2nd-member-named-to-ny-cannabis-board-has-weed-experience\/"},"modified":"2021-09-09T02:59:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T23:59:37","slug":"2nd-member-named-to-ny-cannabis-board-has-weed-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/2nd-member-named-to-ny-cannabis-board-has-weed-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"#2nd member named to NY Cannabis Board has weed experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#2nd member named to NY Cannabis Board has weed experience<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>A lawyer from Buffalo whose expertise includes advising clients on the marijuana industry was named to the state\u2019s new Cannabis Control Board on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Perry was <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointed by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-The Bronx), who got to choose one of the board\u2019s five members.<\/p>\n<p>The move followed last week\u2019s nomination and confirmation of Tremaine Wright, a former Democratic assemblywoman from Brooklyn, as chairperson of the board, which will oversee the regulation of recreational marijuana and related products in the Empire State.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, who was selected by Gov. Kathy Hochul, was given a green light for the job by the state Senate Finance Committee despite having what Committee Member Diane Savino (D-Staten Island) \u2014 a longtime proponent of legalizing weed \u2014 called \u201cno experience in cannabis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither Perry nor the other board members need to be confirmed by the committee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-medium-post is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/adam-perry-hochul-appointee.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=322\" alt=\"Adam W. Perry, Esq\" class=\"wp-image-19391265\" width=\"322\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/adam-perry-hochul-appointee.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=644 644w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/adam-perry-hochul-appointee.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=483 483w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/adam-perry-hochul-appointee.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=322 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/adam-perry-hochul-appointee.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=161 161w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/adam-perry-hochul-appointee.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\"\/><figcaption>Adam Perry was appointed to the Cannabis Control Board by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Luke Copping<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Perry is a partner at the Hodgson Russ law firm, where his practice includes \u201cCannabis &amp; Hemp\u201d and \u201cCanada-US Cross-Border\u201d matters, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hodgsonruss.com\/professionals-Adam-Perry.html\">the firm\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He works out of Hodgson Russ\u2019s offices in both Buffalo and Toronto but the firm\u2019s work in Canada is \u201crestricted to US law,\u201d the website says.<\/p>\n<p>Recreational weed was legalized across the Great White North in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Cannabis Control Board\u2019s remaining members will be chosen by Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who gets one pick, and Hochul, who gets two.<\/p>\n<p>Recreational marijuana \u2014 which could be available for purchase from licensed dispensaries by December 2022 \u2014 is expected to generate as much as $350 million a year in new revenue for the state.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Adam Perry was appointed by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-The Bronx), who got to choose one of the board\u2019s five members&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/hochul-appointee.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[115612,74359,22974,82358,98806,71756,71263],"class_list":["post-336651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-9-8-21","tag-buffalo-new-york","tag-canada","tag-carl-heastie","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-lawyers","tag-marijuana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}