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Cannabis Control Commission doubles down on hazardous dust after worker death

The state agency released a bulletin Wednesday advising cultivators to expand protections inside growing facilities. Nearly three years after a worker died from marijuana dust at a cannabis production facility in Holyoke, the Cannabis Control Commission issued a bulletin requiring cultivators keep…

OK to Exhale…Cannabis Comm Finally Gets a Leader

October 29, 2024
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Compliance and Regulations, Massachusetts, News & Insights
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Months of suspense are over. State cannabis regulators have picked their next executive director, voting Monday to begin the process of bringing back a former head of its government affairs operation to lead the entire agency into a new chapter.…

Massachusetts cannabis regulators fine companies for record-keeping, pesticide violations

The Cannabis Control Commission fined two of the largest marijuana companies operating in Massachusetts on Thursday for negligent behavior around the use of pesticides and record-keeping procedures. The violations against Ascend Wellness and Curaleaf add to a growing list of enforcement…

How a ‘well-known secret’ in Massachusetts cannabis testing is obscuring what’s in your weed

‘No testing would be better than what we do today,’ one lab founder said. Holistic Industries knew its marijuana-growing facility in Massachusetts had a mold problem in 2020 and 2021. To sell its cannabis, Holistic had to have it tested…

Shannon O’Brien fired as state’s top cannabis regulator, ending year-long suspension and months of uncertainty

State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg on Monday fired the state’s top cannabis regulator, formally removing Shannon O’Brien from her post a year after first suspending her and following months of upheaval at the agency. In a statement, Goldberg said O’Brien “committed gross misconduct” and “demonstrated she is…

Cannabis Control Commission acting chair will take medical leave, adding to uncertainty at the agency

Ava Callender Concepion will take at least a month off per medical advice, leaving the commission to find an acting chair for the second time in the past year. Cannabis Control Commission acting chair Ava Callender Concepcion, who is pregnant,…

State treasurer racks up big legal bills in effort to remove cannabis chair

Massachusetts' state treasurer has paid a private law firm hundreds of thousands of dollars as part of her months-long effort to suspend and potentially remove the chair of the state's embattled Cannabis Control Commission, public records show. According to state payroll…

Embattled Cannabis Commission proposes overhauling itself

The move to establish a new governance structure follows months of turmoil at the agency, including calls for it to be taken over by a state receiver After two years of closed-door meetings and nearly $160,000, the Cannabis Control Commission…

The cannabis industry is fighting over how many stores one company can own. Here’s why.

A debate over the cap on weed permits has sparked worries about broken promises to entrepreneurs of color and fears of a marijuana monopoly When recreational cannabis became legal in Massachusetts in 2016, the state imposed strict limits on how…

Former women staffers allege they were bullied at embattled Cannabis Control Commission

Three former high-level staffers at the state’s Cannabis Control Commission say they suffered workplace bullying by the agency’s communications chief, adding to a growing list of complaints about a toxic culture and poor management inside the embattled agency. The former…

I Bought Some Great Legal Weed – Finally!

After two years of settling for mostly mediocre weed, plus a few occasions where mediocre was elevated to good, I finally bought what I consider to be truly excellent cannabis flower at a legal dispensary in the Northeast. I had…

Social equity marijuana businesses sold ‘bag of dreams’ in Massachusetts

EVEN BEFORE CANNABIS was legalized, Kijana Rose knew cannabis could make yoga a better time. Rose, 34, has been teaching ganja yoga for seven years and has been selling cannabis edibles for even longer. Her family is Rastafarian and she grew…

Massachusetts becomes first state to blanket pardon low-level marijuana charges

Massachusetts is now the first state to pardon the crimes of offenders charged with simple pot possession — after President Joe Biden did the same two years ago. Gov. Maura Healey’s first-in-the-nation plan to issue a blanket pardon for simple marijuana possession…

Root & Bloom’s House of Startups

March 18, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Massachusetts, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Salisbury, Massachusetts-based Root & Bloom is a locally and independently owned producer of quality cannabis products whose relatively recent entrance into a quickly maturing Massachusetts market has resulted in a string of achievements that include a steady increase in the…

A Conversation with Canna Provisions’ Meg Sanders

March 12, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Massachusetts, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Meg Sanders is co-founder and CEO of Massachusetts-based Canna Provisions, which currently boasts two popular retail outlets, one in the Berkshire/Western Mass. town of Lee, the other in the small nearby city of Holyoke. The company also produces products under…

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