A move for the Cannabis Control Commission to shore up nearly all of the votes it took during the two years that Chairwoman Shannon O’Brien was deposed failed Wednesday.

O’Brien previously raised questions about the process by which other commissioners were named acting chair of the CCC after she was unlawfully suspended and then fired by Treasurer Deborah Goldberg in September 2023. When O’Brien was first removed from the CCC, Commissioner Kimberly Roy chaired the next meeting and said she had been “designated as chair.” At subsequent meetings, commissioners voted to make others the acting chair. O’Brien contended that only the chair can designate an acting chair, and that her designation of Roy as acting chair the day before her suspension was ignored.

The CCC on Wednesday began its me

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