Dasheeda Dawson, New York Metropolis’s first “Hashish Czar,” gave the keynote handle on the CWCBExpo at … [+]
“Let’s redefine what success appears to be like like within the hashish trade,” Dasheeda Dawson, New York Metropolis’s first “Hashish Czar” informed the most important B2B convention for the U.S. hashish and hemp trade on Thursday.
Within the keynote handle to open the three-day Hashish World Congress & Enterprise (CWCB) Exposition in New York’s Jacob Javits Heart, Dawson laid out her plans to make hashish into an trade that “permits social fairness companies to scale whereas considerably sustaining their possession as leaders, innovators, and changemakers.”
Fairness is giving folks what they want, after they want it and the way they want it, stated the founding director of Hashish NYC. She informed the various distributors from all over the world who got here to the U.S. to promote services to the hashish trade, “That is what we’re prioritizing.”
Launched throughout the metropolis’s Division of Small Enterprise Providers, the company centered on serving to folks begin and develop companies, Hashish NYC goals to construct an interagency hub of citywide sources and providers for all New Yorkers which are fascinated with authorized hashish.
Created to implement and construct the town’s authorized framework to help the targets of New York State’s historic landmark laws, the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, Hashish NYC is “actually executing the most important public re-education and outreach marketing campaign centered on the hashish trade that New York Metropolis has ever skilled,” stated Dawson.
Dawson, who was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams on Oct. 12, 2022 stated, “We’re demonstrating our dedication in New York Metropolis by investing of metropolis {dollars} in a method that different cities and states aren’t.”
The company will spend this summer time making a partnership with the Mayor’s Workplace of Fairness, the New York Metropolis Sheriff’s Workplace, the Administration for Kids’s Providers, the Division of Well being and Psychological Hygiene, and the New York Metropolis Housing Authority. Working with greater than 20 leaders at 15 companies on a weekly and biweekly foundation, the objective is to incorporate all the pieces from financing and enterprise providers to well being fairness and wellbeing.
“We aren’t simply serving to folks begin a cannabis-related enterprise,” stated Dawson, “We’re serving to folks perceive the plan to faucet into its agricultural, medicinal, dietary, industrial and religious utilities.” She stated she hopes that this information and authorities accountability will restore the social, financial, environmental, and human accidents of previous insurance policies and result in extra equitable outcomes than we have seen within the growth of recent markets within the U.S. and the hashish trade.
Previous to being appointed the “Czar,” Dawson was the hashish program supervisor for the Workplace of Neighborhood & Civic Life in Portland, Ore. Previous to that, she earned an MBA from Rutgers, and had a profitable profession centered round enterprise growth. She additionally serves as chair of the Hashish Regulators of Colour Coalition (CRCC).
“We’re on a mission to construct an inclusive, equitable, and protected trade in New York Metropolis and make it probably the most profitable on the earth,” stated Dawson. “My workplace is investing in fairness and I additionally need each one in all you to think about the impression of your investments. Not simply on the non-public or firm backside line, however on our society. The hashish trade has a possibility to write down historic wrongs, to right social injustices and to create pathways for fairness and prosperity for these impacted by hashish prohibition.”