State Office of Cannabis Management Executive Director Felicia A. B. Reid has spent nearly a year in her post overseeing the state’s pot regulator and just in time for the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act’s fourth anniversary. The office has come under fire for years for mismanagement and ran a gantlet of legal challenges in its quest to get legal dispensaries online.
But Reid believes that under her leadership, New Yorkers are set up to blaze legally and safely with even more dispensaries cropping up and on-site consumption centers on the horizon. She’s committed to more collaboration and transparency within the agency as well as bringing dozens of new staff members into the fold to increase efficiency.