05/20/2019 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Agenda Packet

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Ezra has a Bachelor's degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a Master's degree from.Bard College. He taught Art, Science, and Humanities at the internationally recognized Community Adolescent resource and Education Center in Holyoke, Massachusetts for over a decade. with the Ok passing of the 2012 Implementation of an Act for the Humanitarian Use of Medical Marijuana in Massachusetts, he became a medical cannabis educator, caregiver, and consultant in the area. He is the author of the book, "Cannabis Consulting: Helping Patients, Parents, and Practitioners Understand Medical Marijuana" from,the University Press of New England. He now serves as a business consultant in the cannabis industry with is business partner Mark Jarvis. They work on business development, compliance and licensing support fro marijuana companies through their company Greenglove. Mark Jarvis -Principal Consultant, Greenglove Consulting LLC Mark is a veteran and telecommunications and language graduate of a Military Technical College in the United Kingdom, He has pursued an extensive international engineering career in industrial automation and industrial laser applications and technology. Mark's business development background, spanning the last decade, has enabled hire to provide advice, financial and operations support to a broad spectrum of start-up enterprises in the fields of technology, engineering, arts and entertainment, and the recreational marijuana industry. Cannabis Attorney Blake M. Mensing,Founder& Chief Counsel,The Mensing Croup LLC Massachusetts Attorney Blake M. Mensing is The Mensing Group LLC's Founder and Chief Counsel, and brings a no-nonsense approach to cannabis law in Massachusetts. Blake earned a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison(2005), a J.D. from.American University Washington College of Law(2010), an M.A. in International Affairs with a concentration in Global Environmental Policy from American University School of International Service(2010), and an LL.M. in Environmental Law from the George Washington University Law School (2011), where he was a Randolph C. Shaw Graduate Environmental Fellow. while in law school, Blake served as the Senior Note and Comment Editor of the International Law Review and as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sustainable Development Law& Policy. Blake received the Dean's Award for Professional Responsibility for exemplifying proficiency in skills and the highest ethical standards of the profession for his work in American University Washington College of Law's nationally recognized general Practice Clinic. Blake was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 2010 and his legal experience includes transactional real estate, consumer protection litigation, environmental law, and municipal law. In his capacity as associate town counsel for seven towns throughout the Commonwealth, Blake'has written and edited zoning and general bylaws, advised boards of selectmen on medical marijuana dispensary regulation by the Department of Public Health,worked with planning boards and zoning boards of appeal, and represented municipalities before the Massachusetts courts and administrative regulatory agencies.As a former Conservation Commissioner for the Town of Holliston,Blake was one of the local regulators charged with enforcing both the state's wetlands Protection Act and the town's wetlands bylaw. Blake brings his legal and local skills to every interaction with state and local officials, which, when coupled with affability and honesty,helps to make him a different kind of lawyer. Blake knows cannabis and knows the law.