š³ļøāšš³ Cannabis and drug policy reporter. Previously: Boston Globe 2011-2023.
Somerville, MA
Joined March 2009
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The MA Cannabis Control Commission has hired an outside investigator to probe numerous staff complaints against acting ED Debbie Hilton-Creek. Meanwhile, a whistleblower says agency managers planned to fix the results of a competitive software bid.
#mapoli
BREAKING: A WBJ investigation has found a dysfunctional Cannabis Control Commission hollowed out by turnover, bogged down by infighting, plagued by a fuzzy leadership structure, and unable to respond adequately to mounting personnel complaints.
wbjournal.com/article/failedā¦
The only thing this demonstrates is that people want weed, and that regulated retailers are the most convenient way to obtain it.
Would very much be interested in a survey that asked consumers about their confidence in the accuracy of lab testing though.
Massachusetts Marks New Marijuana Milestone, With Adult-Use Sales Topping $8 Billion Since Market Launch: The sales total "demonstrates that consumers continue to have confidence in the safety and security of the regulated market."
marijuanamoment.net/massachuā¦
Dan Adams retweeted
I find it so telling that Dems donāt have a Project 2025 of their own. What is the liberal thesis for why govt isnāt working? How would they fix things like education, homelessness, or crime? How would they go beyond the mantra of protecting institutions and actually improve them?
So much time arguing over the right way to perform Trump opposition when their real problem is lack of competing vision
Sloppy! But surprisingly common among nonprofits, many of which go defunct after a couple years and just kind of lapse into nonexistence without ever formally dissolving. Seems like the state usually looks the other way until someone complains bc most of the time it's benign.
In another twist for the Bay Staters saga ā per the Massachusetts public charity filing database, Bay Staters Incorporated is no longer an active charity in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
According to the state database, the group has failed to file tax returns with the state Attorney General (and the IRS) for **3 years**
Eventually the IRS will revoke their 501c3/4 status.
Wrote a similar story a few years ago about MPAA and I believe the AG send them a scolding letter and then they filed the paperwork, which is incredibly simple unless you take in a lot of money. bostonglobe.com/2020/09/09/mā¦
šÆ @Tori_Bedford is a treasure ā by far the most thorough/nuanced reporter in Boston on this subject. She should do trainings for other newsrooms on best practices for covering unhoused people and people with SUD. She doesnāt require her subjects to earn their inherent dignity.
Appreciation post for the way @Tori_Bedford has consistently bucked the trend and portrayed the unhoused people around Mass & Cass as full human beings wgbh.org/news/local/2024-10-ā¦
One of many odd examples of dysfunction in this story: the CCCās own research director says she was stonewalled internally from obtaining cannabis testing results that might indicate fraud. Then the data were provided to outside researchers via public record request. #mapoli
BREAKING: A WBJ investigation has found a dysfunctional Cannabis Control Commission hollowed out by turnover, bogged down by infighting, plagued by a fuzzy leadership structure, and unable to respond adequately to mounting personnel complaints.
wbjournal.com/article/failedā¦
And @shiraschoenberg did a great mystery shopping investigation two years ago: commonwealthbeacon.org/marijā¦ (fwiw, I repeatedly pitched this story at the Globe over multiple years and they never bit š¤·āāļø)
Iām glad public opinion is finally (if slowly) turning against Gladwell, a smug, intellectually dishonest windbag so addicted to the mythology of his own reasonableness/insight that he feels entitled to make grand pronouncements connecting multiple subjects he knows little about.
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Itās been clear for a while, but searching X for information on Milton as the hurricane made landfall last night proved what a true cesspit this platform has become.
To find real, up to date information, I resorted to googling Florida meteorologists and then manually navigating to their profiles. That is so stupid.