The commission started up in April 2021 "and truly walked into this office with nothing," said Nash, who added there were no phones, no copiers.
"We truly built this agency," she said. "We have done an enormous amount of work in just over one year."
An ardent animal-rights activist, Nash used to live in Cherry Hill, but moved to a Winslow farm because her 15-year accumulation of rescue animals had grown too large.
The menagerie, tended by Nash and husband Jeff Nash, who has served as a Camden County commissioner for 30 years, now numbers 21, including cats, dogs, ducks and chickens. Nash was born in Atlantic City and grew up in Ocean City.
The only cannabis commission member from South Jersey, Nash makes her daily commute to Trenton where regulations are being written, licenses are reviewed and public comment is researched and considered as the state unit builds itself.
