{"id":359596,"date":"2022-01-12T06:20:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T20:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=359596"},"modified":"2022-01-12T06:20:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T20:20:21","slug":"taisacan-jr-s-appointment-to-cannabis-commission-board-affirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/taisacan-jr-s-appointment-to-cannabis-commission-board-affirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Taisacan Jr.\u2019s appointment to Cannabis Commission board affirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-359597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Vinnie-Vinson-Sablan-15WEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation confirmed Friday the re-appointment of Valentino N. Taisacan Jr. to serve as a member of the CNMI Cannabis Commission board representing the Northern Islands.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At SNILD\u2019s session, all 19 members present voted \u201cyes\u201d to adopt the SNILD\u2019s Judiciary and Governmental Operations Committee\u2019s report that recommends Taisacan\u2019s confirmation as a member of the Cannabis Commission board.<\/p>\n<p>SNILD chair Sen. Vinnie Vinson F. Sablan (R-Saipan) said the adoption of the SNILD JGO Committee\u2019s report makes Taisacan\u2019s appointment official.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Edith E. DeLeon Guerrero (D-Saipan) chairs the SNILD JGO Committee.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Taisacan serves as the treasurer of the Cannabis Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Under the law, the governor shall appoint from the Third Senatorial District three members to the Commission, subject to the advice and consent of the SNILD. One of the three appointed members shall be a voter from the Northern Islands and selected by the Northern Islands\u2019 mayor.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Rota and Tinian, shall each appoint from their districts one member to the commission, subject to the consent and advice of the Rota, and Tinian and Aguiguan Legislative delegations.<\/p>\n<p>Nadine C. Deleon Guerrero, who is representing Saipan, is currently the commission\u2019s chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation confirmed Friday the re-appointment of Valentino N. Taisacan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":359598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21639],"class_list":["post-359596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cannabis-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}