Shaleen Title

Shaleen Title is a lawyer, activist, and adjunct professor focused on regulations for emerging industries including cannabis and artificial intelligence. She is the current director of Parabola Center for Law and Policy and a former top cannabis regulator for the state of Massachusetts, where she served as a commissioner of the Cannabis Control Commission from 2017 to 2020.

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Shaleen teaches courses on AI regulations and cannabis law at Roger Williams University School of Law and a graduate course on cannabis policy at Thomas Jefferson University's Institute of Emerging Health Professions. She holds a Certificate of Competence in AI: Law, Policy, and Governance from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She previously served as Distinguished Cannabis Policy Practitioner in Residence at The Ohio State University's Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, where her published reports examined racial justice, interstate commerce, and corporate capture. Her paper Bigger is Not Better: Preventing Monopolies in the National Cannabis Market was SSRN's second-most downloaded antitrust article in the world in 2022.

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Her two decades of work as a legalization activist have earned wide recognition, including NORML's Hunter S. Thompson Attorney Award and inclusion on the Forbes Cannabis and Boston Magazine Power lists, the latter dubbing her "the people's weed watchdog." In 2025, the Cannabis Regulators of Color Coalition established the annual Shaleen Title Ignite Award in her honor.

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Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, and she is regularly cited in outlets including Politico, The Boston Globe, and A More Perfect Union. Shaleen is a triple graduate of the University of Illinois, with a law degree from the College of Law and a graduate degree from the College of Business.