Massachusetts residents may soon be able to order marijuana to their front door.
Last week, the state’s Cannabis Control Commission approved new rules that pave the way for companies to deliver recreational marijuana directly to customers. The regulations, which were adopted Tuesday, created a new type of license for marijuana delivery companies.
Delivery has already been allowed for registered medical marijuana patients. But allowing it for recreational customers — while not required by the 2016 ballot measure legalizing the drug — would give legal operators a chance to provide a service that is currently still dominated by black market dealers, according to CCC officials.
“Marijuana is here, has been here, and it’s not going away,” CCC Commissioner Britte McBride wrote in a recent opinion piece for CommonWealth magazine. “Illegal delivery services are openly competing against licensed, regulated, taxpaying businesses, and that demands our response.”
Well, the commission officially responded last week. Here’s what comes next.
For the first two years, the CCC will only give delivery licenses to applicants in their social equity program, as well as small, locally owned businesses that CCC officials have approved for delivery. [Read more at Boston.com]
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