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Murphy names Amelia Mapp to Cannabis Regulatory Commission

September 19, 2024 7:03 pmSeptember 23, 2024 2:18 am

Gov. Phil Murphy will nominate Amelia Mapp, an executive with a biopharmaceutic company and the wife of Plainfield Mayor Adrian Mapp, to serve as a commissioner of the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Mapp will replace Charles Barker, one of...

Murphy names Booker aide to marijuana panel after NAACP outcry

March 24, 2021 11:34 am

Gov. Phil Murphy will appoint Charles Barker, an aide to U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-Newark), to the state’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission after an outcry from the state NAACP over the absence of a Black man from the five-member panel. “I...