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All you need to do (as we have done) is follow the fact that they can’t hire lawyers for love or money. They’ve been looking for counsel for nigh on 8 months with no success. It suggests that behind the facade of calm lies a disaster in waiting.
NBC 10 News Boston reports..
The chairwoman of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission took commissioners by surprise Friday when she announced in the middle of a regulatory discussion that Executive Director Shawn Collins is planning to leave the agency he has run since its inception and described the CCC as being “in crisis.”
Chairwoman Shannon O’Brien said she wants to meet this week or the week after with her fellow commissioners to discuss Collins’ departure — which has not been acknowledged by Collins, who was not made available to the State House News Service on Friday afternoon — and how the CCC should proceed as it gets into the meat of its latest round of marijuana industry regulation revisions.
O’Brien, the former state treasurer who came under scrutiny for her ties to a cannabis company soon after Treasurer Deborah Goldberg tapped her to chair the CCC last September, announced during Friday’s virtual meeting that Collins informed her in May that he planned announce that he would leave the CCC at the end of this year and that he wanted to take 10 weeks of family leave beginning in September. O’Brien said she asked Collins not to make that announcement in May.
“It was a little bit out of the blue. I wasn’t sure, I said, ‘I would ask that you wait.’ We’re in the process of hiring a new chief people officer, we’re hiring a new general counsel, we are depleted in terms of some of our top management and staff to help us not only get through regulatory writing but to exercise the important responsibilities that we have,” she said Friday.
Read more at
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/mass-cannabis-commission-in-crisis-chair-says/3102053/
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Sean Hocking
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