‘Unacceptable.’ Cannabis Commissioners Scrap With Director, Counsel Over Transparency
December 18, 2025
“Who are we protecting? … Public health, public safety? Or … licensees by keeping them anonymized?”
“Who are we protecting? … Public health, public safety? Or … licensees by keeping them anonymized?”
Cannabis Control Commission taps new force to thwart bureaucratic baggage, ease or axe old regulations that do more harm than good
CCC Chair O’Brien: ‘If we continue to hide data from the public, we can’t do our job to protect public health and safety’
From social consumption and social equity to those lying prohibitionist bastards
Assured Testing Laboratories agreed to a two-year probationary period, a $300,000 fine, and intense oversight
Thousands of pages include everything from private text messages to letters in support of former Cannabis Control Commission Chair Shannon O’Brien
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”
“The Committee will be inviting various Massachusetts cannabis industry stakeholders to testify.” Chief concerns include “proper channels of accountability within the agency structure.”
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
At one point during Thursday’s meeting, Commissioner Roy read a letter from the CCC’s chief of research saying, “We don’t need an agency fighting with each other.”
