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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.
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US Health Dept. recommends easing federal restrictions on Marijuana
Rescheduling the drug would reduce or potentially eliminate criminal penalties for possession. Marijuana is currently classified as a Schedule I drug, alongside heroin and LSD
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This city consumes more marijuana than anywhere else in the world: Study
New York City is now ranked as the top city in the world when it comes to marijuana consumption, according to a recent study.
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Mass. cannabis commission ‘in crisis,' chair says
The chairwoman of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission took commissioners by surprise Friday when she announced in the middle of a regulatory discussion that Executive Director Shawn Collins is planning to leave the agency he has run since its inception and described the CCC as being “in crisis.” Chairwoman Shannon O’Brien said she wants to meet this week or...
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Mastercard tells banks to stop allowing marijuana purchases on debit cards
The financial services company has told banks and institutions to stop allowing cannabis purchases on its debit cards.
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ER visits for children sickened from marijuana surged during the pandemic
The number of young people consuming toxic levels of marijuana edibles or smoking pot to the point that they require emergency help shot up dramatically during the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
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Lawmakers seek to loosen rules on marijuana use by military recruits and security personnel
Amendments authored by Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Robert Garcia, D-Calif., would allow past marijuana users to join the military and gain security clearances, respectively.