Governor Hochul Announces New OCM Leadership – New York State needs a plan for stakeholder input
We applaud Governor Hochul for moving quickly to fill the leadership void left by Chris Alexander leaving his role as executive director sooner than expected, and look forward to working and supporting the new team as they work to keep the agency’s, and the industry’s, momentum going while living up to our state’s goals for an equitable and inclusive cannabis industry. The OCM has been under investigation since March at the Governor’s request, we are now one month removed from the findings of the OGS report, and we’re still without a plan developed with stakeholder input, making us worry that appointing new leadership could simply result in shuffling chairs on the Titanic without preventing it from sinking.