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Treasurer Deb Goldberg is beginning to look for a new chair of the Cannabis Control Commission, she...

Two multistate cannabis companies with operations in Central Massachusetts, have been fined a combined $165,000 by the state’s Cannabis Control Commission for regulatory violations.

Tom and Nick Bedrosian always knew they wanted to go into business together. Growing up, the brothers did not know what their business would look like, but after creating an all-purpose seasoning in their family kitchen, an idea for a spice company was born.

The Cannabis Control Commission expects to wrap up its search for a new executive director.

Hendler Family Brewing was already the largest brewer in Central Massachusetts.

The Cannabis Control Commission is poised to vote later this month on regulations that would finally put into motion policy changes they agreed to last year, and which struggling cannabis delivery businesses say would make a big difference to their bottom lines.

Voting is now open for WBJ’s 11th annual Best of Business Awards.

Neither Table Talk nor NorthBridge immediately responded to requests for comment on the sale, but it’s unlikely these transactions from one real estate firm to another will have an impact on the company’s operations at the sites.

Stop & Shop locations in Worcester and Shrewsbury are set to close at the end of October, as the company faces questions over allegations of price gouging.

Massachusetts cannabis regulators took a guided tour of a outdoor cannabis farm on Thursday, in an attempt to learn more about issues facing the relatively-small number of businesses in the state who have attempted to take marijuana production back to its outdoor roots.