A long-running leadership saga that was a drag on the Massachusetts cannabis industry ended Monday with the firing of the state’s top cannabis official.
Shannon O’Brien, former chair of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC), was fired by state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, according to WGBH, a Boston NPR station.
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Goldberg appointed O’Brien to the state’s top marijuana post in August 2022, about four months after the previous chair, Steven Hoffman, retired in April 2022.
O’Brien, who in 2002 was the Democratic candidate for Massachusetts governor, threw the CCC into tumult by wrongfully announcing in July 2023 that the agency’s director was resigning.
In September 2023, Goldberg suspended O’Brien, who countered with a lawsuit.
O’Brien dropped the lawsuit after being granted a hearing.
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