State Treasurer Deb Goldberg fired O’Brien nearly a year later in September 2024 for “gross misconduct” and being “unable to discharge the power and duties of a CCC commissioner”
A timeline of their turbulent battle and roundup of breaking Mass cannabis coverage
The ball is now in the treasurer’s in Goldberg’s court to fire O’Brien or let her resume her position as commission chair
From news on the lab-testing front, to Governor Healey’s possession pardons, to an update on suspended CCC Chair Shannon O’Brien
Suspended Chair Shannon O’Brien’s meeting with appointing state Treasurer Deb Goldberg is pushed back. As cannabis commissioners carry out duties under placeholders, major questions still loom around leadership.
Among the findings: CCC did not provide cybersecurity awareness training to its employees.
Newly released termination file from case between Massachusetts Treasurer Goldberg and Shannon O’Brien details “bullying” and irreconcilable differences from start of tenure
Request for a public process “must await further briefing as necessary and a hearing”
Allegations of racial insensitivity among various converging controversies involving cannabis regulator leadership in Massachusetts
From an in-house “playbook” to do colleagues dirty, to targeted attacks, here’s what suspended CCC Chair Shannon O’Brien is claiming
