{"id":9543,"date":"2022-08-31T07:01:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T07:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2022\/08\/31\/ticker-shannon-obrien-to-chair-pot-commission-job-openings-jump-in-july\/135809\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T07:01:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T07:01:01","slug":"ticker-shannon-obrien-to-chair-pot-commission-job-openings-jump-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/ticker-shannon-obrien-to-chair-pot-commission-job-openings-jump-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticker: Shannon O&#8217;Brien to chair pot commission; Job openings jump in July\u00a0"},"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\/ticker-shannon-obrien-to-chair-pot-commission-job-openings-jump-in-july\/\" 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\/2022\/08\/08-30ShannonOBrienCCC-416x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ticker-shannon-obrien-to-chair-pot-commission-job-openings-jump-in-july.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ticker-shannon-obrien-to-chair-pot-commission-job-openings-jump-in-july-2.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>When the Cannabis Control Commission marks its five-year anniversary on Thursday, it will also get a new chairperson \u2014 former state Treasurer Shannon O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p>Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, who is responsible for appointing someone with a financial background to chair the marijuana industry regulatory body, announced Tuesday that she will swear in O\u2019Brien, who served as state treasurer from 1999 until 2003, as chair of the CCC on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am confident that her financial background, experience in corporate governance, executive management and business development, combined with outstanding leadership skills and an acute knowledge of the legislative process, will help the Massachusetts cannabis industry be fairly regulated, equitable and successful,\u201d Goldberg said of O\u2019Brien, who follows interim Chair Sarah Kim and inaugural CCC Chair Steven Hoffman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2022\/08\/30\/ticker-shannon-obrien-to-chair-pot-commission-job-openings-jump-in-july\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles When the Cannabis Control Commission marks its five-year anniversary on Thursday, it will also get a new chairperson \u2014 former state Treasurer Shannon O\u2019Brien. Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, who is responsible for appointing someone with a financial background to chair the marijuana industry regulatory body, announced Tuesday that she will swear in O\u2019Brien, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,8296,8424,528,8232,9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5063,8297,8425,3102,8234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543"}],"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=9543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}