{"id":10396,"date":"2024-09-16T07:53:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T07:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2024\/09\/16\/ousted-shannon-obrien-vows-legal-battle-over-pot-board-firing\/136685\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T07:53:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T07:53:21","slug":"ousted-shannon-obrien-vows-legal-battle-over-pot-board-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/ousted-shannon-obrien-vows-legal-battle-over-pot-board-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousted Shannon O&#8217;Brien vows legal battle over pot board firing"},"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\/ousted-shannon-obrien-vows-legal-battle-over-pot-board-firing\/\" 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\/09\/shannonms004-490x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ousted-shannon-obrien-vows-legal-battle-over-pot-board-firing.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ousted-shannon-obrien-vows-legal-battle-over-pot-board-firing-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<p>Shannon O\u2019Brien plans to appeal her firing as the chairwoman of the Cannabis Control Commission directly to the Supreme Judicial Court, her lawyer said Tuesday, and one of her former CCC colleagues will take over as acting chair in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>Treasurer Deborah Goldberg fired O\u2019Brien on Monday, citing unspecified \u201cgross misconduct.\u201d On<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, she announced that she had chosen Commissioner Bruce Stebbins to serve as acting chair of the CCC until a more permanent chairperson can be hired. The treasurer said the former gaming regulator, business development official, city councilor and White House aide \u201cwill ensure stability during this period and will continue to positively impact the important mission of the CCC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2024\/09\/11\/ousted-shannon-obrien-vows-legal-battle-over-pot-board-firing\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon O\u2019Brien plans to appeal her firing as the chairwoman of the Cannabis Control Commission directly to the Supreme Judicial Court, her lawyer said Tuesday, and one of her former CCC colleagues will take over as acting chair in the meantime. Treasurer Deborah Goldberg fired O\u2019Brien on Monday, citing unspecified \u201cgross misconduct.\u201d On Tuesday, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8304,8424,528,8232,9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8305,8425,3102,8234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396"}],"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=10396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}