There’s a new face in Massachusetts’s fluctuating cannabis industry: Travis Ahern, the existing Holliston town administrator, will take on the Cannabis Control Commission’s executive director role in March.
Ahern — who accepted the role after the commission’s former pick, David Lakeman, backed out of an initial offer in December — comes to the commission as it works on new regulations and its first governance charter. The agency has been at that work for months, while facing upheaval stemming from unresolved leadership and commissioner turnover, legal disputes, and a watchdog’s call last June to place the CCC into receivership. The commission is still without a permanent chair.
