Meet Krista Nash, the Winslow resident who helps to oversee the birth of the state's cannabis economy.
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.