The internal strife at the Cannabis Control Commission was on full display Tuesday as the chairwoman and another commissioner called the agency's executive director to the carpet over his handling of the punishment that commissioners doled out to a testing laboratory last summer.
The latest donnybrook deals with the August 2025 agreement that allowed Tyngsborough-based Assured Testing Laboratories to resume operations after having been shut down by the CCC when an investigation found the company was not accurately reporting the results of tests for yeast and mold in cannabis. As part of that agreement, which was ratified on a 3-0 vote of CCC commissioners, Assured was to pay a $300,000 fine in three equal installments due in mid-October, mid-December and a final payment due Tuesday.
The first payment was made without issue. But as the second payment deadline approached and without first bringing it to the commissioners, CCC Executive Director Travis Ahern approved a request from the company to amend the agreement to allow Assured to make the second $100,000 payment by the same deadline as the third installment: Tuesday, Feb. 10. But as commissioners convened a meeting Tuesday, one of the items on the agenda was a request from Assured to pay just $100,000 on Tuesday with the promise of the final $100,000 coming in April.
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