Mass Grass NewsDid The Cannabis Control Commission Omit Public Health Data From A Report?
CCC Chair O’Brien: 'If we continue to hide data from the public, we can't do our job to protect public…
November 18, 2025CHRIS FARAONE
Chris is the editor and co-founder of Talking Joints Memo, a co-founder of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, and a longtime reporter for outlets including the Boston Phoenix and DigBoston. He started his career as a music journalist and has been honored to collaborate with the likes of cannabis icons like Cypress Hill and Wu-Tang on book projects. He also plays pickleball and would love more people to play with who also smoke weed.
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Mass Grass NewsCommissioner Concepcion Resigns From Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission
Ava Callender Concepcion, who served nearly five years and temporarily led the agency, steps down following absence
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Mass Grass News5 Stories Dominating Massachusetts Cannabis Right Now
From social consumption and social equity to those lying prohibitionist bastards
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Mass Grass NewsMass Senate To Take Up Cannabis Industry Overhaul Bill
Body’s Ways and Means Committee advances version with some shifts from House bill on ownership, medical, other key points
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Reinstated CCC chair fails in attempt to safeguard decisions made while agency “did not have a properly designated chair”
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Tracking down canvassers, mostly in front of Massachusetts grocery stores, who are misinforming petition signers
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Senseless tragedy as former Fall River Mayor Will Flanagan stabbed outside dispensary
October 21, 2025
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October 21, 2025
Mass Grass NewsOur Issue By Issue Check-In With Cannabis Control Commission Executive Director Travis Ahern
Pt. 2—The ED addresses hemp regulation, closures, worker safety, lab testing, and social consumption
October 16, 2025
Mass Grass NewsOur Issue By Issue Check-In With Cannabis Control Commission Executive Director Travis Ahern
Pt. 1—Budgets, staffing, social equity, the Massachusetts Medical use of Marijuana program, and the ballot initiative to end recreational cannabis
October 9, 2025