Business View Magazine | January 2020

201 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 and co-founder/CEO of Oasis Cannabis, Ben Sillitoe; NDA board member, philanthropist and chairman of The Grove board, John Ritter; and NDA board member and General Counsel to Tryke, Brett Scolari, Esq. Today, NDA concentrates its main efforts on cannabis industry advocacy, government affairs, public relations, and developing cannabis industry education resources on a variety of subjects. Over the course of the legislative sessions since NDA formed, the association has acted as the industry’s main advocate, informing legislation that creates common sense regulation and growth in an industry that recorded $639 million in sales in the 2019 fiscal year. As a part of its government affairs initiatives, NDA was proud to contribute testimony to the Governor’s Advisory Panel in advance of Assembly Bill 533 becoming law, which calls for the creation of a Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) and a Cannabis Advisory Commission (CAC). Modeled after Nevada’s world class Gaming Control Board, the CCB will include five experts without pecuniary or financial interests with experience in fields ranging from finance/accounting to law enforcement, medicine, compliance, and cannabis. The CAC will consist of several standing members, such as the Director of the Department of Taxation, as well as eight appointed positions to be filled by people with expertise ranging from industry experience to experience in public health. The CAC members will have the ability to consider issues relating to the industry, as well as share their recommendations with the CCB. Governor Sisolak has already appointed Nevada state and federal government affairs expert Tyler Klimas as Executive Director of the CCB and the remaining positions will be filled before July 1, 2020, after which the CCB will assume the functions of the current Department of Taxation’s Division of Marijuana Enforcement. In addition to its government affairs work, as the clearest voice of the industry, the NDA regularly hosts stakeholder information summits. These summits include the pair of policy summits held in Las NEVADA DI SPENSARY ASSOC I AT ION