{"id":9551,"date":"2022-09-30T07:31:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T07:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2022\/09\/30\/cannabis-control-boss-shannon-obrien-paid-181722-has-business-before-her-own-board\/135829\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T07:31:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T07:31:01","slug":"cannabis-control-boss-shannon-obrien-paid-181722-has-business-before-her-own-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/cannabis-control-boss-shannon-obrien-paid-181722-has-business-before-her-own-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis Control boss Shannon O&#8217;Brien, paid $181,722, has business before her own board"},"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\/cannabis-control-boss-shannon-obrien-paid-181722-has-business-before-her-own-board\/\" 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\/09\/09012017potplants2-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cannabis-control-boss-shannon-obrien-paid-181722-has-business-before-her-own-board.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ShannonObrienArt-415x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cannabis-control-boss-shannon-obrien-paid-181722-has-business-before-her-own-board-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cannabis-control-boss-shannon-obrien-paid-181722-has-business-before-her-own-board-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 state\u2019s new pot boss Shannon O\u2019Brien, paid a smoking $181,722 salary, has been involved in two applications for cannabis cultivation, according to documents reviewed by the Herald.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien is listed on an application filed in 2020 by Greenfield Greenery LLC, as an \u201cOwner\/Partner\u201d in a proposal to open an outdoor growing operation occupying upwards of 100,000 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>A second application, by Charlemont FarmWorks LLC, lists O\u2019Brien under a section titled \u201cOur Team\u201d as an adviser, noting her role as the former state treasurer and as a former state senator. She also ran for governor in 2002, losing to Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2022\/09\/28\/weed-boss-shannon-obrien-paid-181722-has-business-before-pot-board\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles The state\u2019s new pot boss Shannon O\u2019Brien, paid a smoking $181,722 salary, has been involved in two applications for cannabis cultivation, according to documents reviewed by the Herald. O\u2019Brien is listed on an application filed in 2020 by Greenfield Greenery LLC, as an \u201cOwner\/Partner\u201d in a proposal to open an outdoor growing operation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,8304,8244,528,8232,9,441,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5063,8305,8246,3102,8234,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551"}],"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=9551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}