Dan Adams

Oct 28, 2024 | wbjournal.com | Eric Casey |Dan Adams

In June, Massachusetts Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro issued a scathing assessment of the state’s Cannabis Control Commission, saying legislators should place the agency in receivership because longstanding disagreements over who held power at the agency had caused turmoil and rendered it rudderless.

Mar 30, 2024 | inbusinessphx.com | Dan Adams |Benjamin Little

The layoff news just keeps on coming. Many of the job cuts being reported are in the tech sector, but the hatchet is also hitting industries from air travel to healthcare to music. Nobody loves mass layoffs, but their increasing frequency seems to imply an alarming level of acceptability. This is a symptom of a bigger problem — the tendency of today’s corporate leaders to make decisions based on short-term thinking. Before the ’70s, mass layoffs were rare, and for good reason.

Feb 9, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Dan Adams

Massachusetts marijuana officials have once again extended several temporary regulations that were enacted at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic and are meant to reduce face-to-face interactions in the cannabis industry. The five members of the state Cannabis Control Commission voted unanimously at a meeting Thursday to extend three policies through the end of 2023.

Jan 23, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Dan Adams

When Massachusetts lawmakers rewrote the state’s marijuana laws in 2022, they focused largely on changing the legal cannabis industry. Now, it appears the emphasis will shift to consumers and workers.