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IndustryPlayers | New Hires & Promotions
second vice chair. Bachtell replaces
Acreage Holdings CEO Kevin Murphy
as chair.
California Lab Gets New CEO
CannaSafe, an ISO-accredited
cannabis testing laboratory based
in Van Nuys, California, appointed
former president Aaron Riley as
CEO. Riley had served as CannaSafe
president since 2016.
Simon Out, Horvath in at High Times
Former Overstock.com CEO Stormy
Simon, who took over as CEO of
High Times Holding Corp. in January,
stepped down from the post in
early May.
She was replaced by Peter Horvath,
an American Eagle Outfitters and
Victoria's Secret executive who most
recently ran Ohio-based cannabis
retailer Green Growth Brands. Horvath
resigned that post in March after a
turbulent few months that included
the company jettisoning its CBD lines.
The company filed for bankruptcy
in May.
Horvath is High Times' third
CEO in a little more than a year,
including Kraig Fox, who departed
the company in December after nine
months in the role.
Horvath arrives at High Times amid
the company's scramble to attract
investors as part of a Regulation A
public stock offering.
National Cannabis Roundtable
Changes Leadership
The National Cannabis Roundtable
appointed Charlie Bachtell, CEO and
co-founder of Cresco Labs, as chair,
and Kim Rivers, CEO of Trulieve, as
DEA Gets New Acting
Administrator
Attorney General William Barr
appointed Timothy Shea as acting
administrator of the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration.
Since February 2020, Shea served
as interim U.S. attorney for the
District of Columbia, the largest
U.S. attorney's office in the country,
responsible for the prosecution of
both federal and local crimes in the
district. He also served on the Attorney
General's Advisory Committee.
Shea served as associate deputy
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FDA Vet, State AG
Join National Hemp Board
The U.S. Hemp Authority Board, a
self-regulating organization, added
former Arkansas Attorney General
Dustin McDaniel and former U.S.
Food and Drug Administration official
Larisa Pavlick to its board.
Pavlick currently serves as vice
president of global quality and
compliance for the United Natural
Products Alliance, which represents
the dietary supplement industry.
While at the FDA's Denver District
Office, she worked as a consumer
safety officer and investigator.
McDaniel was an elected member
of the Arkansas House of Representatives.
During his first two-year term,
which began in 2005, he was elected
state attorney general.
attorney general from 1990 to 1992
and as counselor to the attorney
general since 2019. In both roles,
he advised the attorney general on
law-enforcement operations, criminal-justice
policy and management
issues affecting the department.
From 1992 to 1997, Shea served as an
assistant U.S. attorney in the eastern
district of Virginia.
Shea served as chief of the public
protection bureau in the Massachusetts
Attorney General's Office
and also was chief counsel and staff
director of the U.S. Senate Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations and
on the U.S. House Appropriations
Committee professional staff under
former U.S. Rep. Silvio O. Conte. Shea
also spent time in private practice at
an international law firm.
Attorney Joins
Pennsylvania
Hemp Committee
EmmaRose Boyle,
an attorney with
Barley Snyder, a
Pennsylvania law
firm with more than
100 lawyers, has been appointed
to the Hemp Industrial Steering
Committee, which was formed
through cooperation between
the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture and Team PA Foundation.
The committee is an advisory
body to the department and to the
industry in Pennsylvania. Boyle is
co-chair of the steering committee's
policy and regulation subcommittee.
In her law practice, she has been
counseling clients in the booming
hemp industry to track and navigate
its emerging laws and regulations,
including compliance and risk
management.
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