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Massachusetts marijuana regulators asked to revisit recreational delivery, telehealth

The legal market is still taking shape nearly four years since voters legalized marijuana in Massachusetts, and rules around home delivery of cannabis and access options for medical patients were at the center of the latest round of push-and-pull on Monday between the industry, medical patients and regulators.

Aspiring entrepreneurs, medical marijuana patients and caregivers gave regulators plenty to think about during a public hearing held Monday to collect input as the Cannabis Control Commission works through at least its third phase of rule-making about three years since its inception.

Delivery service was one area of the CCC’s draft regulations for adult-use marijuana that attracted significant public comment. The commission approved a delivery license structure in the fall and made applications available in May, but has not yet licensed a delivery-only business. Several prospective cannabis delivery operators told commissioners Monday that the framework for delivery will not work as currently written.

“We think that it’s not economically viable in its current form, even though the intention behind it is very well-meaning. So to make this a viable license type, the delivery, we think there’s three very important changes that should be made to the draft regulations,” Morriss Partee, president of Emerald River LLC and advisor to the Massachusetts Cannabis Association for Delivery (MCAD), said. [Read more at MassLive]

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