Massachusetts becomes first state to blanket pardon low-level marijuana charges April 4, 2024 AggregatedNews Massachusetts 0 Comments Massachusetts is now the first state to pardon the crimes of offenders charged with simple pot possession — after President Joe Biden did the same two years ago. Gov. Maura Healey’s first-in-the-nation plan to issue a blanket pardon for simple marijuana possession… Read More→
Root & Bloom’s House of Startups March 18, 2024 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Massachusetts, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Salisbury, Massachusetts-based Root & Bloom is a locally and independently owned producer of quality cannabis products whose relatively recent entrance into a quickly maturing Massachusetts market has resulted in a string of achievements that include a steady increase in the… Read More→
A Conversation with Canna Provisions’ Meg Sanders March 12, 2024 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Massachusetts, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Meg Sanders is co-founder and CEO of Massachusetts-based Canna Provisions, which currently boasts two popular retail outlets, one in the Berkshire/Western Mass. town of Lee, the other in the small nearby city of Holyoke. The company also produces products under… Read More→
Massachusetts governor to issue pardons for those convicted of cannabis possession March 11, 2024 AggregatedNews Massachusetts 0 Comments Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey plans to announce this week that she’s following the lead of President Joe Biden and issuing pardons to those convicted of simple possession of cannabis at the state level, her office said Monday. The move could… Read More→
Massachusetts breaks record for marijuana sales, for the 6th year in a row February 7, 2024 AggregatedNews Massachusetts 0 Comments Massachusetts set a new record for marijuana purchases in 2023, with December capping the year off as the best-ever sales month, the Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) said in a press release Tuesday. Adult-use marijuana establishments in the state grossed more than $1.56… Read More→
‘It was their job to protect Lorna’: Family of woman who died on the job at Mass. cannabis factory files wrongful death suit November 22, 2023 AggregatedNews Massachusetts, Policy & Legal 0 Comments “Lorna was my life. This company took my whole life away from me.” The family of a woman who died from an asthma attack while on the job at a Massachusetts cannabis cultivation and processing facility is suing the company and its… Read More→
Massachusetts cannabis businesses challenge constitutionality of federal drug laws October 27, 2023 AggregatedNews Massachusetts 0 Comments The legal landscape for state-regulated marijuana markets has changed dramatically since the U.S. Supreme Court last weighed in on the issue in 2005. A group of Massachusetts weed businesses have filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the government from enforcing federal drug… Read More→
Mass. cannabis commission chair sues state treasurer over suspension October 2, 2023 AggregatedNews Massachusetts 0 Comments Shannon O'Brien, the suspended chair of the Cannabis Control Commission, filed a lawsuit Thursday against state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, alleging that Goldberg "willfully side-stepped both Massachusetts law and any process at all" in removing O'Brien from her post. The suit,… Read More→
New regulations aim to level the marijuana playing field in Massachusetts August 9, 2023 AggregatedNews Massachusetts 0 Comments When marijuana was legalized in Massachusetts, Commonwealth leaders said it wasn't just big business that was going to profit, yet the promises that everyone would have an even chance at the now-billion-dollar industry have not materialized. With that in mind,… Read More→
Massachusetts Crisis Part 2: Does the CCC Have its Priorities Right? August 3, 2023 Tom Hymes Lab Testing, Massachusetts, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments According to its chairperson, Massachusetts’ cannabis regulatory body is currently in crisis, but for some stakeholders in the state, it’s a long-simmering crisis endemic to a dysfunctional agency unable to deal with serious issues facing the Massachusetts cannabis market. One… Read More→
Massachusetts Crisis Part I: Has Shawn Collins Resigned as Executive Director of the Cannabis Control Commission? August 1, 2023 Tom Hymes Massachusetts, News & Insights 1 Comment It is a secret wrapped in a conundrum folded into a riddle. Has Shawn Collins, the first and only executive director of Massachusetts’s Cannabis Control Commission, in fact resigned? That’s what he ostensibly told Commission chair Shannon O’Brien, who interrupted… Read More→
Massachusetts Cannabis Commission ‘in crisis,’ chair says July 30, 2023 AggregatedNews Massachusetts 0 Comments Chairwoman Shannon O’Brien announces executive director’s departure plans The chairwoman of the Cannabis Control Commission took commissioners by surprise Friday when she announced in the middle of a regulatory discussion that Executive Director Shawn Collins is planning to leave the… Read More→
Welcome to the cannabis crunch: Mass. marijuana industry braces for turbulent 2023 January 17, 2023 AggregatedNews Massachusetts 0 Comments The Massachusetts marijuana industry is on the verge of an impressive milestone: $4 billion in revenue since recreational sales began in November 2018, a total that has also netted state and local governments hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes.… Read More→
Will CT recreational cannabis sales impact Massachusetts dispensaries? January 10, 2023 AggregatedNews Connecticut, Massachusetts 0 Comments Recreational cannabis users in Connecticut have been shopping at dispensaries out of state — until today. The opening of seven recreational cannabis locations marks the first time Connecticut residents will be able to buy non-medical products in their home state.… Read More→
Recreational cannabis prices in Mass. plummet as dispensary owners weigh future December 14, 2022 AggregatedNews Massachusetts 0 Comments Recreational cannabis has never been cheaper in Massachusetts than it was this year. Prices have been steadily decreasing for more than a year, and those running businesses in the burgeoning industry expect them to keep dropping. While customers may be… Read More→