Massachusetts Regulators Pick New Cannabis Control Commission Executive Director
David Lakeman comes from Illinois cannabis program but started career with Massachusetts Municipal Association and CCC
David Lakeman comes from Illinois cannabis program but started career with Massachusetts Municipal Association and CCC
In a surprisingly boring September meeting, the few commissioners left punt on big topics and discuss personnel and budget
Training for social equity license applicants may be cut short. Acting ED: “It is not looking that great for us, but we continue to do the best we can with the little we have.”
Revelations regard topics ranging from “disagreements” “on messaging,” to lack of “consensus,” to “staff pushback,” to it taking “three weeks for a tweet to be posted regarding agreed upon policy”
With one colleague suspended and another now on medical leave, remaining Massachusetts cannabis regulators nearly had to adjourn meeting
“It could offer us an opportunity to … help us reduce the size of the illicit market.”
“Right now, the regulations completely do not allow it. … If we were to look at revising those regulations, it would be very large scale changes to those regulations.”
From badging, to addressing the nonpayment issue, to a doc on social equity, to record sales, worker safety, and dispensaries that sell scratch tickets
Now is the time for municipalities—as well as potential applicants—to “raise their hands.”
Worker safety, research, testing, social consumption, delivery, and—finally—movement on the Social Equity Trust Fund
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