BOSTON (WWLP) - Following years of political strife and battling out in court, Shannon O'Brien has been reinstated as the head of the Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) and Treasurer Deb Goldberg is dropping her appeal of O'Brien's reinstatement.

O'Brien was suspended from her role as leader of the CCC in September 2023 and eventually fired by the treasurer in 2024 after claims of racially insensitive comments and failures of leadership. O'Brien consistently denied all claims and sued to get her job back, and earlier this month, she was successful.

The supreme judicial court judge who ruled on the case said there was an extreme lack of evidence of cause to fire the former chair, but immediately afterwards, the treasurer told the press she believes the judge "got it wrong."

Now, after a b

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