'Living up' to the Garden State: Legal weed commission opens for business
For Sam Delgado, who was elected vice chair, the memory at the front of his mind when accepting the job was his own 1975 arrest for marijuana possession in upstate New York.
For Krista Nash, it was helping prisoners re-enter society while working as a social worker: "These are men and women that have been directly impacted by the war on drugs," she said. "I was a witness to the numerous barriers they faced as they tried to reintegrate back to the community."