‘There’s no financing’: Cannabis equity applicants look forward to home delivery, but struggle with startup costs
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
Posted Feb 17, 2021
Major Bloom, a cannabis retailer and economic empowerment business looking to open in Worcester, has its provisional license as a temporary window covering.
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This year is poised to have a milestone moment for the Massachusetts cannabis industry with the anticipated launch of home delivery. But members of the state’s equity programs still struggle with finding the financing to get their businesses off the ground.
To start 2021, the state Cannabis Control Commission promulgated new regulations including a delivery operator license that will allow for the wholesale purchase of cannabis items to be warehoused and then sold and delivered.
By Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff
February 11, 2021
Ava Callender Concepcion
Last month, Attorney General Maura Healey tapped Ava Callender Concepcion, a Dorchester attorney, to fill the vacant public safety seat on the state’s Cannabis Control Commission.
Concepcion, a self-described “Mattapan girl” who grew up near the Mattapan/Dorchester border, now lives in Uphams Corner with her husband and 14 month-year-old child. In an interview with the Reporter, she described how being a lifelong Boston resident compelled her to pursue a career rooted in social justice and advocate for change at the local level.
Concepcion’s early years were “a huge part of why I ended up getting a degree in criminology and becoming a lawyer,” she explained.
Walsh appoints Ernani DeAraujo to Boston School Committee, filling seat left open by Loconto resignation
DeAraujo to be first person from East Boston to serve on School Committee
By Felicia Gans Globe Staff,Updated February 9, 2021, 11:28 a.m.
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Ernani DeAraujo.City of Boston
Ernani DeAraujo, a lifelong East Boston resident and a Boston Public Schools alumnus, has been appointed to the seven-member Boston School Committee.
DeAraujo, who is the vice president of regulatory affairs and general counsel at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, will be the first person from that neighborhood to serve on the committee, according to Mayor Martin J. Walshâs office.
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The Cannabis Control Commission has filled its last vacant seat, ending a prolonged stretch without a full roster of Commissioners. Filling the void left by Commissioner McBride’s resignation late last year, Governor Baker, Treasurer Goldberg and Attorney General Healey recently appointed Ava Callender Concepcion as the Commission’s newest member. A Dorchester native and graduate of New England Law School, Concepcion joins the Commission from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office where she most recently served as Director of Governmental Affairs and External Partnership. Prior to working in the District Attorney’s Office, Concepcion held several positions in the public sector including working as a Victim Witness Advocate in the Boston Municipal Court system.