The new chair of Massachusetts’ Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) is familiar with the state’s governmental process.
But she hasn’t participated in state government since 2002.
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Shannon O’Brien, a former treasurer and Democratic candidate for governor in Massachusetts, was appointed chair of the CCC by the current state treasurer, The Boston Globe reported.
O’Brien replaces Steven Hoffman as the permanent chair.
Hoffman resigned in April near the end of his five-year term, then, in early August, took a role as board member of EO Care, a startup medical marijuana software platform based in Boston, according to the Globe.
Sarah Kim, deputy state treasurer, guided the CCC on an interim basis after Hoffman’s departure.
O’Brien was to be sworn in as Cannabis Control Commission chair on Thursday.
She takes the reins at a time that state lawmakers have tasked the CCC with implementing critical reforms to the state’s marijuana
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