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San Francisco's brand-new Office of Cannabis now has a director. On Aug. 28, longtime City Hall aide Nicole Elliott was appointed to head the newly established department, which was formalized by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on July 25. Elliott is now on the hook to deliver two...

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee often refers to his departments heads as being part of the "city family" – but sometimes the family ties can get a bit complicated. Take the case of Nicole Elliott, the just-named, $149,459-a-year director of the newly created Office of Cannabis. Elliot had been...

San Francisco has tapped a veteran City Hall aide to head its new Office of Cannabis and create a permitting process for the industry – just as the Board of Supervisors contemplates a 45-day moratorium on new dispensaries. Nicole Elliott, who previously worked for Mayors Gavin Newsom and Ed...

The legislature provided the latest example from a dysfunctional session Monday as a bipartisan effort to legalize recreational marijuana broke down minutes before its public announcement. Reps. Josh Elliott, D-Hamden, and Melissa Ziobron, R-East Haddam, engaged in an argument a few feet from...

On the website of the Marijuana Industry Group, among the most powerful cannabis business organizations in Colorado and the country as a whole, executive director Michael Elliott remains front and center. Elliott, who's headed MIG under both its current name and its previous moniker, the...