At least 14 marijuana dispensaries in Massachusetts have agreed to make hand sanitizer as part of efforts to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. The dispensaries, organized by the Commonwealth Dispensary Association (CDA) and in partnership with the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association (MHA), received approval from the Baker administration, Department of Public Health and Cannabis […]
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Coronavirus: Medical marijuana dispensaries are called essential in Mass., but recreational pot shops must close under governor’s order
Starting tomorrow, only licensed medical marijuana retailers are allowed to sell cannabis products in Massachusetts for the next few weeks during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Baker on Monday morning asked residents to stay at home as the respiratory illness continues to spread and ordered all non-essential businesses to close at noon on March 24 through […]
Boston Area Residents Stockpile Marijuana In Case Of Coronavirus Quarantine
Some Massachusetts residents are preparing for the coronavirus pandemic by stockpiling supplies — emptying grocery store shelves, stacking up cans of black beans in their cupboards and, apparently, buying a lot of marijuana to make it through a potential extended self-quarantine period. In Brookline, marijuana dispensary New England Treatment Access has eliminated all walk-in orders […]
Slow Going For Efforts To Diversify The Massachusetts Marijuana Industry
One big complaint about Massachusetts’ legal marijuana industry: Who is getting all those profits? Efforts to change have been slow moving. Opening today, in Boston, is the first marijuana business in the state to apply through what’s called the social equity program. It was designed to give a leg up to people and communities disproportionately […]
Boston’s first recreational marijuana dispensary will open Monday
Nearly 40 months since Massachusetts voted to legalize marijuana, Boston is getting its first recreational pot shop. Pure Oasis, an adult-use marijuana dispensary located in the Grove Hall neighborhood of Dorchester, announced that it plans to open Monday at 11 a.m., after the state’s Cannabis Control Commission issued the store a commence operations notice Thursday […]
Should illegal marijuana sellers be taxed in Massachusetts? CCC, state legislators eyeing a task force that would look toward taxation over criminal penalties
Concerns about the illegal marijuana market in Massachusetts became even more heightened last year as people here in the state, and across the country, started to fall ill from vaping. For Commissioner Britte McBride of the state Cannabis Control Commission, the vaping crisis became a “fairly significant watershed moment” that reinforced the need for multiple state agencies to […]
From chefs to chemists, Massachusetts’ burgeoning marijuana industry is creating jobs that use a wide range of skills
When Gene Ray was studying biology at Fisk University in Nashville, he started to use marijuana regularly. At the time, he wasn’t thinking that if combined, his scientific expertise and interest in cannabis could make a career. While studying medicinal plant extracts in Hawaii later, it was the first time Ray, a pharmaceutical chemist, thought […]
Green tea party? State licenses Boston’s 1st marijuana shop
BOSTON — Boston’s first retail pot shop and Massachusetts’ first minority-owned marijuana business was approved Thursday, more than a year after the first shops opened elsewhere in the state. The state’s Cannabis Control Commission on Thursday voted to give final license approval to Pure Oasis, a pot shop proposed by two local black entrepreneurs. The […]
Marijuana vape sales can resume, CCC declares
BOSTON — State marijuana regulators on Thursday eased their ban on vaping product sales, allowing certain types of products to return to store shelves one day after state public health officials backed off a ban on nicotine vape sales. As of 2 p.m. Thursday, the Cannabis Control Commission permitted licensed marijuana retailers to sell devices […]
Massachusetts medical marijuana customers are buying cheap, good weed — in Maine
Ingrid Martinez is terminally ill and undergoing chemotherapy. Medical marijuana helps her alleviate her nausea and pain. Martinez, 50, a Lowell resident who worked in medical coding before she got sick, travels to Maine every three weeks or so to buy marijuana. Although she has a Massachusetts medical marijuana card, she said marijuana costs too […]
