{"id":9860,"date":"2023-09-21T19:50:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T19:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2023\/09\/21\/battenfeld-shannon-obriens-surprise-suspension-creates-more-turmoil-in-3-billion-pot-industry\/135973\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T19:50:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T19:50:57","slug":"battenfeld-shannon-obriens-surprise-suspension-creates-more-turmoil-in-3-billion-pot-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/battenfeld-shannon-obriens-surprise-suspension-creates-more-turmoil-in-3-billion-pot-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Battenfeld: Shannon O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s surprise suspension creates more turmoil in $3 billion pot 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\/battenfeld-shannon-obriens-surprise-suspension-creates-more-turmoil-in-3-billion-pot-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\/2023\/09\/021920iwojimaar08-550x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/battenfeld-shannon-obriens-surprise-suspension-creates-more-turmoil-in-3-billion-pot-industry.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/battenfeld-shannon-obriens-surprise-suspension-creates-more-turmoil-in-3-billion-pot-industry-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>Let\u2019s see, put a hack political appointee and a pot industry executive at the helm of the state agency that\u2019s supposed to regulate the $3 billion weed industry \u2013 what could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>State Treasurer Deb Goldberg\u2019s incredibly bad decision to put former state Treasurer Shannon O\u2019Brien at the helm of the Cannabis Control Commission has not surprisingly come back to bite her as O\u2019Brien is now out just a year into her tenure.<\/p>\n<p>In a shameless and cowardly move, Goldberg leaked the news of O\u2019Brien\u2019s surprise suspension in a Friday news dump while the state was in a hurricane state of emergency \u2013 refusing to face the music for her ill-fated move.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2023\/09\/15\/battenfeld-shannon-obriens-surprise-suspension-creates-more-turmoil-in-3-billion-pot-industry\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles Let\u2019s see, put a hack political appointee and a pot industry executive at the helm of the state agency that\u2019s supposed to regulate the $3 billion weed industry \u2013 what could possibly go wrong? State Treasurer Deb Goldberg\u2019s incredibly bad decision to put former state Treasurer Shannon O\u2019Brien at the helm of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8244,528,8232,9,441,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8246,3102,8234,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860"}],"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=9860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}