Virginia officials are ramping up hiring for a variety of cannabis regulatory roles as the state’s pro-legalization governor prepares to take action on a bill to allow recreational sales, in addition to several other reform proposals that lawmakers have sent to her desk.
In one of the latest indicators that the commonwealth is positioned to enact a system of regulated marijuana sales, Virginia’s government jobs site was recently updated with a list featuring nearly a dozen openings for cannabis regulatory positions.
That includes a cannabis licensing director who would play a central role in standing up adult-use businesses, a compliance and enforcement director to ensure any commercial market is adhering to the law and various ancillary roles to support those positions.
The licensing director under the state’s existing Cannabis Control Authority (CCA) would be tasked with providing “strategic and operational leadership for all cannabis licensing functions” and ensuring that “licensing processes are fair, transparent, timely, and compliant with statutory and regulatory requirements,” a job description says.
The director of compliance and enforcement, meanwhile, would be responsible for overseeing the “monitoring, inspections, investigations, and enforcement actions within the state’s cannabis regulatory agency.” And they would be expected to create a “fair,
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