New England Public Media | New director seen as ‘major step’ for Massachusetts Cannabis Commission

By Colin A. Young

Aiming to have its new executive director on board by this summer, the Cannabis Control Commission spent hours Thursday crafting the contours of the job and detailing what qualities a successful applicant will demonstrate.

The CCC has not had a full-fledged executive director working every day since its inaugural administrative head, Shawn Collins, went out on parental leave in September. The agency operated on a consensus approach for about a month before it tapped a relative newcomer, Chief People Officer Debra Hilton-Creek, to serve as acting executive director. Collins resigned from the CCC at the end of his leave in December and Hilton-Creek has maintained a hand on the agency’s rudder.

The new executive director will sit atop an agency that has been gripped by upheaval for much of the last year, and also one that is in the midst of implementing the first major industry reform law since non-medical use of marijuana was legalized here in 2016.

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