Marijuana

A growing number of Massachusetts students are considering careers in cannabis — the emerging field employs thousands in specialties ranging from science to agriculture to business and retail. 

A redacted copy of Massachusetts Treasurer Deborah Goldberg’s decision to fire Shannon O’Brien as chair of the Cannabis Control Commission was filed in court this week, but the treasurer is asking a skeptical judge to keep troves of other information related to the long-running saga out of public view. Goldberg fired O’Brien in September 2024 after considering about 19...

Massachusetts’ Cannabis Control Commission says yeast and mold have been found in some locally sold marijuana products. A lab founder tells us he’s been warning the state for years. 

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A new investigation has uncovered a concerning trend in the Massachusetts cannabis industry: mold- and yeast-contaminated marijuana being sold at dispensaries across the state. Industry experts say an alert from the Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) raises serious concerns about consumer safety, particularly for medical marijuana patients with compromised immune systems. Whistleblower raises the alarm on cannabis testing Christopher Hudalla, founder...

Several marijuana products sold across Massachusetts were recently found to have mold and yeast in them above acceptable limits, the Cannabis Control Commission said in a health advisory Monday. The strains — Slap N Tickle, Tiger’s Eye, Carbon Fiber, Frosted Jungle, Highland OG and Silver Kush — were sold as recently as last month, according to the announcement. They passed…

The Cannabis Control Commission’s incoming executive director said Friday his first priority when he assumes the role will be to nail down the governance structure at the commission.

Holliston Town Administrator Travis Ahern has agreed to bring his experience in municipal government to the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission next year as its new executive director during a time of significant changes in the maturing industry, the agency announced Monday evening.

The Cannabis Control Commission will offer the executive director position to another person, commissioners said in a Wednesday meeting, after its first choice turned down the job.

The person chosen to be the next executive director of the embattled Cannabis Control Commission has decided not to take the job. David Lakeman, a former CCC official who for the past four years has been leading the Illinois Department of Agriculture’s Cannabis Division, turned down an offer to lead the marijuana regulatory agency in Massachusetts, a CCC spokesperson...

As the appeal of her firing inches through the court system, former Cannabis Control Commission chair Shannon O’Brien is pressing on multiple fronts to get information about her tenure at the CCC and Treasurer Deborah Goldberg’s decision to fire her into the public record. The Supreme Judicial Court last month kicked O’Brien’s appeal down to the Superior Court, where...

As they prepare to roll out their latest attempt at putting a framework around allowing people to use marijuana in public social settings later this week, regulators on the Cannabis Control Commission said Monday they are confident that a 2022 law and the conversations they’ve had with businesses, other regulators, municipalities and law enforcement will put them in a position…

A Uber Eats delivery driver smelled something funky with the burrito they had just been called to pick up, so the driver called police in a New Jersey town.

As they explore ways to either shore up or restructure the Cannabis Control Commission, lawmakers heard Wednesday from outsiders who suggested that the Legislature first be clear about its goals for the agency and then allow the best governing structure to emerge from there. Frustration with the slow pace of regulatory changes from the CCC, a series of headline-grabbing internal…

Lawmakers heard a litany of complaints about the business and regulatory environments for marijuana companies Wednesday as a key committee mulls whether and how it should intervene legislatively to address chronic problem spots in the industry and with the Cannabis Control Commission. People involved in the legal marijuana world have been frustrated with the slow pace of regulatory changes from…

A proposal to end the ban on recreational marijuana shops in Revere has been a hot topic in the Massachusetts city. More than 2,000 people have signed a petition to keep the ban in place. They’re afraid dispensaries will add to addiction issues, and they want more information on long-term effects of recreational marijuana. “While we know many people who…

A dispensary ban in Revere will remain in place for now after a heated debate on whether to allow the recreational sale of marijuana.

The Cannabis Control Commission has picked a new executive director after nearly a year without a permanent leader for the agency’s 135-person staff.

The rate at which Mass. cannabis businesses are surrendering licenses has picked up rapidly in the past year as the industry faces economic and regulatory headwinds.

The Massachusetts Legislature’s Cannabis Policy Committee plans to wade into the laws surrounding state marijuana regulators at a State House hearing the day before Halloween. The committee posted a notice for an informational hearing to inform its “reconsideration” of the 2017 law that formed the Cannabis Control Commission, which has come under fire this year amid personnel disputes including the…

When someone told cannabis educator Casey Sanginario that a Boston-based company was selling a domestic robot that grows cannabis using artificial intelligence, she waived it off as entirely non-credible. “My first thought was, there’s no way,” Sanginario said with a laugh after describing herself as a cannabis snob. “I’m in groves all the time. I have a lot of...