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Marijuana grow busted in Maine as feds investigate trend in 20 states
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating international criminal organizations that are operating illegal marijuana grows in about 20 states, including Maine.
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Cannabis equity grants distributed after 2-year delay
Checks long promised to entrepreneurs in the Massachusetts marijuana industry are finally getting delivered.
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Marijuana industry gearing up for 4/20
Marijuana sales have seen a huge increase locally and nationally, thanks in part to the unofficial high holiday 4/20. Ture Turnbull from Tree House Craft Cannabis joined us to talk about the business and how it’s trying to put a focus on recycling.
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Healey's historic marijuana possession pardons approved by governor's council
Gov. Maura Healey has officially pardoned tens of thousands of people convicted in Massachusetts for simple possession of marijuana. The governor’s council unanimously approved the pardons Wednesday, Healey announced. “Massachusetts made history today. I’m grateful to the Governor’s Council for their due diligence in approving my request to pardon all state misdemeanor marijuana possession convictions,” Healey said in a...
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Michigan woman allegedly tried to fly from Boston to London with 74 pounds of marijuana
Massachusetts prosecutors say a Michigan woman tried to take an international flight from Boston with 74 pounds of marijuana. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office says 28-year-old Nalexus Palmer of Clinton Township was arrested Saturday night at Logan International Airport. She was allegedly trying to transport hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of cannabis on a flight to London....
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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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New statistics provide more insight into marijuana's impact on driving
As support for legalizing marijuana rises across the country, there’s new information about testing for THC in drivers, which is proving there’s more research that needs to be done.
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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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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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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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Biden issues proclamation pardoning simple marijuana offenses
President Joe Biden issued a proclamation on Friday, pardoning those who committed simple marijuana offenses, including use and possession.
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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. 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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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.