Jennifer Flanagan announces she’s stepping down from Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, ending 25-year career of public service
Updated Apr 13, 2021;
Posted Apr 13, 2021
Jennifer Flanagan’s last day on the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission is April 30. Flanagan previously served as the state senator for the Worcester and Middlesex District. Photo courtesy of Cannabis Control Commission.
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Jennifer Flanagan on Tuesday announced she is stepping down from her seat on the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission this month, ending a 25-year career of public service in the state.
“I really believe that working alongside the inaugural commissioners, former commissioners [Britte] McBride, [Kay] Doyle, [Shaleen] Title, and commissioner [Steven] Hoffman, was something interesting,” Flanagan said in a phone interview. “We literally walked in to day one with nothing but a chair and maybe a pencil. So having created what we did, from the ground up
‘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.
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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.
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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