WeedHire Selects Evan Nison to Its Cannabis Industry Advisory Board
December 08 2014 - 8:00AM
Access Wire
Prominent Marijuana Law Reform
Advocate Brought on to Help WeedHire Establish Standards for
Marijuana Job Opportunities
Fair Lawn, NJ / ACCESSWIRE / December 8, 2014 /
WeedHire International (OTCBB: WDHR) today announced that it has
selected Evan Nison as the newest member of its Cannabis Industry
Advisory Board.
Evan Nison is the youngest ever Executive Director of NORML New
Jersey, the New Jersey Affiliate of the National Organization for
the Reform of Marijuana Laws, as well as the Co-Founder and
Director of NY Cannabis Alliance.
As the Co-Founder and Director of the NY Cannabis Alliance, Evan
has helped craft the NY medical marijuana and marijuana
legalization bills. In 2010 he moved to California to run the
college outreach effort for Prop 19 in California, which spanned
over 40 school. He was President of Ithaca Students for Sensible
Drug Policy for 4 years, which was rated the #1 college drug law
reform chapter in the country in 2011. Evan was instrumental in the
passage of the New York 911 Good Samaritan Law and served as Drug
Policy Advisor to Mayor Svante Myrick of Ithaca, NY, one of the
youngest mayors in the country, where he helped spearhead an effort
to pass a US Conference of Mayors resolution supporting the
legalization of marijuana.
Evan has appeared in news sources such as the NY Times,
Politico, Metro News, USA Today, Bloomberg TV, Fox 5, ABC 7, and
has been profiled in the Ithaca Times and Home News Tribune. He
also received the 2011 NORML Student Activism Award and High Times
Freedom Fighter Award for his advocacy.
"We are delighted to bring Mr. Nison onto our Cannabis Advisory
Board; his proven leadership in legal cannabis is extremely
valuable as we continue the long-term efforts of helping both
WeedHire and legal marijuana as a whole become a standardized
marketplace. As this is still a very young industry, Evan's
background and success in marijuana legislation efforts is
invaluable for WeedHire to continue to develop its offerings that
are most beneficial to both legal cannabis employers and marijuana
job seekers." Stated David Bernstein CEO of WeedHire
International.
"This new industry will create an enormous amount of new jobs,
and helping assure the human resources are in place to connect the
right people to these jobs is an important part of properly
implementing a legal marijuana market in a responsible way." Stated
Evan Nison, who is also the Executive Director of NORML New
Jersey
WeedHire.com was launched in May 2014 as the premier marijuana
jobs site for the legal cannabis industry.
Although WeedHire is the central online portal and social media
source for job seekers and providers, it is not involved with the
growth, sale, or distribution of marijuana.
About WeedHire International (OTCBB: WDHR)
WeedHire International, Inc. operates WeedHire.com, a career
website specifically targeting employment within the legal cannabis
industry. Our mission is to help our clients hire the most
qualified individuals and to help those individuals find the best
job opportunities in their respective fields furthering their
careers in legal marijuana. WeedHire.com provides job postings for
cannabis jobs such as Recommending physicians, Physician's
assistants, Growers, Budtenders, Dispensary operators, Security
guards, Dispensary administrators, Lighting specialist, Delivery
drivers, Lab techs, Marketing specialists, Lawyers, Insurance
agents and Government jobs. In addition, the specialized focus of
our website benefits those job seekers by helping to ensure that
the job opportunities posted by our customers are relevant and
attractive to them.
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future results or implied by such statements. These factors
include, but are not limited to, our ability to comply with the
laws, rules and regulations related to the growth, sale, or
distribution of marijuana and our ability to execute on our
business plan. Weedhire's future results may also be impacted by
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Company Contact:
David Bernstein
WeedHire.com
daveb@weedhire.com
(201) 475-730
SOURCE: WeedHire.com
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