LOOKING TO Rob Gronkoswki for well-considered medical advice feels a bit like turning to Curt Schilling for tips on video game startups. They both excelled as pro athletes, but it’s not […]
Marijuana
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Commissioner abstains on most pot license votes
THE MOST IMPORTANT ROLE for the state’s five-member Cannabis Control Commission is, arguably, its mandate to vote on granting recreational marijuana licenses, without which there can be no growing, manufacturing, […]
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A pot research bonanza
Massachusetts, despite its Puritan “blue laws” past, showed more of its blue state liberal leanings through a 2016 ballot question that made it one of 10 states to legalize recreational […]
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In pot chase, social equity meets economic reality
THE MESSAGES BEGAN ARRIVING last year, shortly after the Cannabis Control Commission released the names of people eligible for economic empowerment status, which would allow them to cut to the front […]
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Boston stumbles on pot shop ordinance
A cannabis shop buffer zone of half a mile approved by Mayor Martin Walsh recently created mayhem at a Zoning Board of Appeal meeting. Why? Because Walsh’s administration approved two […]
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Boston stumbles on pot shop ordinance
A CANNABIS SHOP BUFFER ZONE of half a mile approved by Mayor Martin Walsh recently created mayhem at a Zoning Board of Appeal meeting. Why? Because Walsh’s administration approved two […]
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Was ‘Reefer Madness’ right?
IN THE MID-1930s, a church group financed a film intended to frighten parents about the dangers their children face from marijuana. “Reefer Madness” portrayed cannabis as a powerful drug capable of […]
Posted inOpinion
Cannabis deliveries would solve a lot of problems
THE CANNABIS CONTROL COMMISSION’S impending listening sessions on cannabis delivery are a welcome sign of progress for adult use in Massachusetts. While legal cannabis products have been available for purchase […]
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Pot shop openings gaining steam
MORE THAN TWO YEARS after voters decided to legalize non-medical cannabis, Massachusetts granted New England Treatment Access in Brookline a recreational marijuana license on Thursday. The business will be the […]
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A 1% solution to promote cannabis diversity
ALMOST A DOZEN adult-use cannabis stores have opened in Massachusetts, and so far there is at least one clear pattern: Not a single retail outlet is owned by empowerment candidates […]
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Local cannabis company sells to Ga. firm
HERE COMES MORE Big Marijuana. A Georgia company with a big-time capital investor and marijuana operations in Florida, Texas, and Nevada announced on Monday that it has signed a deal […]
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Local cannabis company sells to Ga. firm
Here comes more Big Marijuana. A Georgia company with a big-time capital investor and marijuana operations in Florida, Texas, and Nevada announced on Monday that it has signed a deal […]
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Cannabis entrepreneurs should come from Boston’s neighborhoods
THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL recently called several hearings to explore the city’s licensing and regulation of the cannabis industry. Whether would-be retailers want to admit it or not, we have […]
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Pot shop restriction a nonstarter
ON TUESDAY, the Boston City Council will hold a hearing on a proposal by District 1 Councilor Lydia Edwards to prohibit cannabis facilities from operating within a half-mile of addiction […]
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This bud’s for you
THE STATE’S LEGAL MARIJUANA era started with a bang, or, by mid-morning for some early customers, perhaps a buzz. There was a celebratory feel at the first two retail outlets […]
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Weather doesn’t dampen first day of pot sales
PARIS COLEMAN DIDN’T even know how to pronounce Leicester, and most assuredly had never visited the aging mill city in the northern Blackstone River Valley. But the 26-year-old New England […]
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Pot legalization exposes generation gap in local government
MORE THAN TWO YEARS after voters passed Question 4 to legalize adult-use cannabis, retail sales are about to finally begin. It promises to be a remarkable moment but also a […]
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The lamp is lit
MORE THAN TWO years after voters approved legal recreational marijuana sales and use, the doors of the first retail outlets east of the Mississippi will finally swing open on Tuesday […]
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Globe all in on pot
IT’S A SMALL THING that few would initially notice but it says something loud. On the Boston Globe’s home page, just below the paper’s logo, is a list of categories […]
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‘Big Marijuana’ is actually a thing
DURING THE 2016 CAMPAIGN, and since the passage of the law legalizing the sale and adult use of marijuana in Massachusetts, opponents of legal pot have continually pointed to the […]
Posted inEconomy
Canada cannabis
THE BONG, ER, GONG, sounded early Wednesday morning for the nationwide sale of marijuana in Canada, only the second country in the world to legalize the drug and the first […]
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Canada cannabis
The bong, er, gong, sounded early Wednesday morning for the nationwide sale of marijuana in Canada, only the second country in the world to legalize the drug and the first […]
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Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em – at home
In the language of the emerging marijuana industry, where cannabis is the preferred term, they are called social consumption sites. Years ago, we would have called them pot bars. The cafes […]
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Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em – at home
In the language of the emerging marijuana industry, where cannabis is the preferred term, they are called social consumption sites. Years ago, we would have called them pot bars. The cafes […]