Mass Grass NewsFormer CCC Member Appointed Chair Of Boston Licensing Board
Ava Callender Concepcion served as acting chair of the cannabis agency, and also brings experience from the Suffolk DA's office…
October 28, 2026Ava Callender Concepcion
Mass Grass NewsMass 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
November 17, 2025Mass Grass NewsMass Cannabis Regulators Address Idea Of Alcohol At Social Consumption Events
In drafting regulations, commissioners consider how weed and booze might coexist at events
May 12, 2025Mass Grass NewsCCC Releases Multiple Sets Of Clandestine Executive Session Minutes
Revelations regard topics ranging from “disagreements” “on messaging,” to lack of “consensus,” to “staff pushback,” to it taking “three weeks…
August 14, 2024
Mass Grass NewsAnd Then There Were Three: Commission Leadership Struggles Continue
With one colleague suspended and another now on medical leave, remaining Massachusetts cannabis regulators nearly had to adjourn meeting
August 14, 2024Mass Grass NewsCannabis Commission Unveils Proposed Leadership Changes
Commissioners acknowledge need for clarity on roles of chair, executive director
July 12, 2024Mass Grass News10 Takeaways From This Week’s Cannabis Control Commission Meeting
From badging, to addressing the nonpayment issue, to a doc on social equity, to record sales, worker safety, and dispensaries…
February 9, 2024Mass Grass News2024 Massachusetts Cannabis Predictions: Equity & Regulation Edition
Worker safety, research, testing, social consumption, delivery, and—finally—movement on the Social Equity Trust Fund
January 2, 2024Mass Grass NewsRegulators Have Awkward But Relatively Brief Dispute Over Acting Chair
“Are we on sound legal footing? More than anything, that has to be the lens that we look at this…
December 15, 2023Mass Grass NewsThese Operators Pushed For Years. Finally, Commissioners Delivered.
Cannabis regulators vote to scrap “burdensome” “two-driver” rule. “We have met with delivery operators and couriers to truly understand. ……
December 15, 2023