The first female governor of New York state, Gov. Kathy Hochul worked her way up from local politics in Upstate\u2019s Erie County before serving as a member of Congress, becoming lieutenant governor in 2021.<\/p>\n
Gov. Hochul is now building on New York\u2019s historic Marijuana Taxation & Regulation Act (MRTA)\u2014signed in 2021 by then-governor Andrew Cuomo\u2014 including measures for restorative justice, overseeing the implementation of the Social Equity Cannabis Investment Fund which prioritizes licenses for nonprofits and the communities most impacted by cannabis prohibition and the War on Drugs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the first woman to serve as Governor of New York, I\u2019m not focused on making history\u2014I\u2019m focused on making a difference. New York\u2019s cannabis industry is doing exactly that, making a difference by righting the wrongs of the past, prioritizing support for equity applicants\u2014which, by law, includes women-owned businesses\u2014and generating investments into communities most impacted by the disproportionate enforcement of cannabis prohibition. I was proud to select Tremaine Wright to serve as Chairwoman of the New York State Cannabis Control Board and that she\u2019ll continue to establish the nation\u2019s most equitable cannabis market.\u201d<\/p>\n
This story was originally published in issue 48 of the\u00a0print edition<\/a>\u00a0of Cannabis Now. Read it now on the Cannabis Now\u00a0iTunes app<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Women of Influence: Gov. Kathy Hochul\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The first female governor of New York state, Gov. Kathy Hochul worked her way up from local politics in Upstate\u2019s Erie County before serving as a member of Congress, becoming lieutenant governor in 2021. Gov. Hochul is now building on New York\u2019s historic Marijuana Taxation & Regulation Act (MRTA)\u2014signed inContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,17449,17331,85,6536,17360,65,17450,208,16173,510,4229,5429,16958,17223],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69371,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69370\/revisions\/69371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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