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Massachusetts: Former Revenue Chief To Lead Reshaped Cannabis Control Commission

May 20, 2026 | Feature, National

Given the chance to reshape the Cannabis Control Commission, Gov. Maura Healey has tapped a former revenue commissioner who recently steered the Executive Office of Health and Human Services to chair the downsized panel.

The governor on Tuesday appointed Christopher Harding as chair of the new three-person commission and also picked as commissioners Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council official Xiomara DeLobato and cannabis law advisor Anthony Wilson.

Healey in April signed a law dissolving the original, five-commissioner structure of the commission, replacing it with a three-person panel appointed entirely by the state’s executive.

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