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Where is marijuana legal in the US? A state-by-state guide
Marijuana is fully legal in 24 states and Washington, D.C. Another 17 states have legalized its use solely for medical purposes, with varying caveats in each states’ laws.
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@Issue: The impact of sweeping cannabis pardons in Massachusetts
Healey made a landmark announcement on Wednesday, issuing a sweeping pardon for those who have been convicted of simple possession of cannabis at the state level, something she says could impact hundreds of thousands of people.
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Gov. Healey to announce she's pardoning marijuana convictions
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey plans to announce Wednesday 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.
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Councilors eager to dig into Healey's pot pardon plan
Two of the elected officials who would vote on Gov. Maura Healey’s plan to pardon convictions for simple cannabis possession expressed their support Tuesday, a day before the governor is set to provide details of her proposal at a State House news conference. Healey, the state’s former top prosecutor who once joined Gov. Charlie Baker in opposing the legalization...
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Mass. cannabis commission chair due for suspension hearing in April
The long-awaited and often-debated meeting between Massachusetts State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg and suspended Cannabis Control Commission Chairwoman Shannon O’Brien, a meeting that could lead to O’Brien’s firing, is being penciled in for April 10 and 11. Goldberg’s office said it proposed the Wednesday and Thursday dates next month for the meeting. A spokesman for O’Brien said those are the...
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Should Mass. cannabis stores be allowed to sell lotto tickets?
A request from one marijuana store to be allowed to also sell Massachusetts Lottery tickets has sparked a broad conversation at the Cannabis Control Commission about where to draw the line on the sale of non-cannabis products as the legal marijuana industry matures to include establishments beyond standard retailers. State law and the CCC’s regulations neither explicitly allow nor...
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Fitchburg seeing cannabis cultivation business boom
There are 13 marijuana cultivation businesses that are currently operational or soon will be in the relatively small city of Fitchburg.
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How marijuana is becoming big business in Fitchburg
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, a relatively small city in Worcester County, has transformed itself into a mega town for marijuana. Converting an old wire-making factory into a cannabis cultivation operation, Garden Remedies was the first to move to Fitchburg in 2016. Since then, six other companies have created similar set ups within the city’s limits and six others are in the...
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Lawyer sentenced for trying to bribe Medford police chief over pot business
The former Massachusetts lawyer convicted of trying to bribe a Medford’s chief of police to get a company’s marijuana business license approved has been sentenced to two years in prison. Sean O’Donovan was arrested in June 2022 over what prosecutors at the time called a “pay-to-play scheme” to pass along $25,000 to a person who considered applications for new...
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Warren among senators urging Biden admin. to deschedule marijuana
A group of Democratic senators is calling for the president to remove marijuana from a list of federally criminalized drugs defined by the Controlled Substances Act, according to a news release from Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office. The Massachusetts Democrat and Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., spearheaded the initiative, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, both of Vermont’s...
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Biden pardons thousands convicted of marijuana charges on federal lands and in DC
President Joe Biden has pardoned thousands of people who were convicted of use and simple possession of marijuana on federal lands and in the District of Columbia.
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Man arrested after allegedly selling cannabis to teens
Police in Brookline, Massachusetts, say a man was selling drugs that looked like candy to high school students.
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ER doc warns parents after young boy accidentally eats a chocolate edible
An emergency room pediatrician is seeing an uptick in children consuming pot-laced edibles that often look and taste like regular candy.
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Family of Mass. cannabis worker who died at job from asthma attack files lawsuit
The family of a woman who died last year at a licensed marijuana facility in Massachusetts, the country’s first reported occupational asthma death at a cannabis production facility, has filed a lawsuit alleging negligence, recklessness and misconduct against the facility and the people who worked on its HVAC system. Lorna McMurrey’s family filed the wrongful death suit in Hampden...
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Mass. Cannabis Control Commission names agency newcomer as acting director
Marijuana regulators gave themselves an added measure of certainty around one of two Cannabis Control Commission leadership positions Monday by appointing their head of human resources to serve as acting executive director for the next several weeks with important budget and policy matters on the horizon. Chief People Officer Debra Hilton-Creek will serve as acting executive director of the CCC…
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Mass. faces calls for investment in medical marijuana research
Ethos, a multi-state cannabis operator, wants to invest in medical marijuana research in Massachusetts, but there’s no place for it to go. The state has a license category for medical marijuana research facilities, but not a single entity has a state-approved operation up and running. Ethos CEO Gibran Washington, who already funds medical marijuana research in Pennsylvania at Thomas...
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Push to increase medical marijuana research
A cannabis CEO came to Massachusetts with a challenge to do more research into the health benefits of marijuana.
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Cannabis firms cut jobs as ‘green rush' cools
Cannabis sales are up across Massachusetts, but the so-called “green rush” has cooled off.
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Republicans soften on federal marijuana reform in a shift that could make it a reality
Cannabis reform is moving one step closer to reality at the federal level, with a committee hearing on a bipartisan bill to expand banking services for legal marijuana businesses expected to take place at the end of the month, according to multiple people directly involved in the process.
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US regulators want to loosen federal restrictions on marijuana. Here's what that would mean
When it emerged this week that U.S. health regulators are suggesting that the federal government loosen restrictions on marijuana, the news lit up the world of weed.