The Rhode Island Cannabis Control Commission met Thursday afternoon for the first time in over two months, spending most of its first meeting of 2025 behind closed doors. Absent from the agenda was a staple item for most meetings: public comment.
The hiring of a chief public affairs officer, however, dominated the meeting. The commission's three members spent 15 minutes in executive session where they voted to extend a job offer to a candidate. The announcement was made upon the commission's return to open session. Then the commission adjourned. The meeting — the first since Oct. 15, 2024 — lasted 23 minutes.
Chairperson Kimberly Ahern would not disclose the name of the candidate the commission selected to the crowd of seven members of the public who attended the meeting.
"There are layers of things to do before we can share anything," Ahern told Rhode Island Current.
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