{"id":10238,"date":"2024-07-01T19:01:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T19:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2024\/07\/01\/who-are-you-calling-rudderless-massachusetts-cannabis-regulator-defends-work-on-7b-industry\/136186\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T19:01:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T19:01:05","slug":"who-are-you-calling-rudderless-massachusetts-cannabis-regulator-defends-work-on-7b-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/who-are-you-calling-rudderless-massachusetts-cannabis-regulator-defends-work-on-7b-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are you calling rudderless? Massachusetts cannabis regulator defends work on $7B industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/who-are-you-calling-rudderless-massachusetts-cannabis-regulator-defends-work-on-7b-industry\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/420celebrationpc02-523x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/who-are-you-calling-rudderless-massachusetts-cannabis-regulator-defends-work-on-7b-industry.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/shannonms001-560x380.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/who-are-you-calling-rudderless-massachusetts-cannabis-regulator-defends-work-on-7b-industry-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/who-are-you-calling-rudderless-massachusetts-cannabis-regulator-defends-work-on-7b-industry-3.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-yarpp-template-inarticle-right\">\n<aside class=\"article-related right\">\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>The agency regulating the marijuana industry is not \u201crudderless,\u201d according to its acting chairwoman, and continues to work despite assertions that it needs a receiver in order to function.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you paid attention, we\u2019re working. It\u2019s always all hands on deck. We\u2019re continuing to push policies,\u201d Cannabis Control Commission Acting Chair Ava Callender Concepcion told the Herald in a one-on-one interview.<\/p>\n<p>The legal marijuana industry in Massachusetts made $7 billion in sales last year, and $1 billion of that came back to the Bay State in the form of taxes and fees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2024\/06\/29\/who-are-you-calling-rudderless-massachusetts-cannabis-regulator-defends-work-on-7b-industry\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles The agency regulating the marijuana industry is not \u201crudderless,\u201d according to its acting chairwoman, and continues to work despite assertions that it needs a receiver in order to function. \u201cIf you paid attention, we\u2019re working. It\u2019s always all hands on deck. We\u2019re continuing to push policies,\u201d Cannabis Control Commission Acting Chair Ava Callender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8304,8244,528,8232,56,9,441,1407,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8305,8246,3102,8234,2636,3015,3976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}