Cat Packer on Cannabis, Equity, and Reform in mg Magazine
SSDP’s friend and colleague, Cat Packer, graced the cover of mg Magazine, the leading national trade outlet for cannabis industry professionals.
As the first person of color to head a cannabis regulatory agency, Cat helped build the system. Now she’s working to make it more equitable, and she mentions her collaboration with SSDP in the article.
mg Magazine reports, “In 2017, when Cat Packer became the founding director of Los Angeles’s Department of Cannabis Regulation, she took on the immense task of establishing and implementing a regulatory program for one of the largest cannabis marketplaces in the world. A law school graduate who previously had worked for the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), Packer instantly became the face of all the department’s accomplishments and missteps.
After holding the regulatory role from 2017 to 2022, she returned to work with the DPA, where she is now the director of drug markets and legal regulation. In addition to that work, she serves as Distinguished Cannabis Policy Practitioner in Residence at the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center at Ohio State University, her alma mater.”
