Fun announcement – we are compiling a Commonwealth Home Grower’s Guide and a Mass Recreational Road Map to be released as special print and web editions in the coming months. If you’re at the New England Cannabis Convention (NECANN) next week (March 24-25), come to our booth and tell us what you would like to see covered. We’ll also be soliciting input through Talking Joints Memo starting soon.
THE MEDIA
Bob Lobel plans to host a podcast about pot (Boston Globe)
THE LAW
New England Lawmaker Pushing For Marijuana Sanctuary State (High Times)
THE ORDER
Cops: Man stole ex-girlfriend’s weed (Boston Herald)
FEATURED
Bob Lobel plans to host a podcast about pot (Boston Globe)
New England Lawmaker Pushing For Marijuana Sanctuary State (High Times)
Joe Kennedy III explains why he’s one of the few Democrats not so hot about pot (Boston.com)
Marijuana products in Massachusetts to include pot leaf warning sign (Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News)
Pot regulations OK’d by commission (Gloucester Daily Times)
Hemp Hangs by a Thread in Mass
Warning icons to appear on all pot products (Gloucester Daily Times)
Massachusetts’ New Marijuana Regulations Are In, On Schedule (Boston Magazine)
Cannabis Cultivators Must Sell 70 Percent of Product in Order to Expand, According to New … (BU News Service)
Medical pot facilities ready leap to retail (Boston Herald)
Massachusetts Won’t Allow Cannabis Cafes or Marijuana Home Delivery After All (CT Post)
Read DigBoston’s 2015 Cover Story on Bob Lobel in which he first came out as a cannabis user
REGULATION RECAP
Four Key Changes To Mass. Marijuana Regulations, Now That Rules Are Finalized (New England Public Radio)
4 Key Changes to Massachusetts Marijuana Regulations With Rules Now Finalized (Cannabis Business Times)
Massachusetts Finalizes Regulations for Its Long-Awaited Adult-Use Cannabis Industry (Merry Jane)
Regulations Approved To Govern Pot Sales In Massachusetts (WAMC)
Marijuana products in Massachusetts to include potleaf warning sign (WHDH)
Cannabis Commission finishes regulations (The Recorder)
Chronicle AM: MA Legal Pot Rules Set, New Effort to Delete HEA Drug Question, More… (3/7/18) (Drug War Chronicle)
Massachusetts Finalizes Regulations for Its Long-Awaited Adult-UseCannabis Industry (Merry Jane)
Massachusetts’ New Marijuana Regulations Are In, On Schedule (Boston Magazine)
Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission Approves Marijuana ‘Universal Symbol’ (Weed News)
Massachusetts Lawmakers Approved Final Regulations for Legal Cannabis(The Marijuana Times)
Pot panel adopts final regulations (Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly)
Bourne
Bourne takes up rec (Cape Cod Times)
Cambridge
Despite 71% in favor of legal, residents divided on pot shops (Wicked Local)
Fall River
Planners recommend rezoning Brayton Point Road lot for facility (Fall River Herald News)
Hingham
Town Meeting to debate pot sales and other issues (Boston Globe)
Lynn
Recreational pot is coming to Lynn. Where will they go? (Daily Item)
Milford
Milford marijuana businesses look to what’s next after vote (Milford Daily News)
North Adams
North Adams To Formalize Policy (WAMC)
Springfield
New dispensary holds fair (Boston Herald)
Somerset
Consultant does presentation on benefits of cannabis (SouthCoastToday.com)
Somerville
Somerville passes moratorium (Wicked Local)
Taunton
First dispensary blooms (Wicked Local)
Westport
Westport seeks votes on proposed recreational ban (South Coast Today)
CONNECTICUT
Legislative Committee Will Consider Bill Legalizing Marijuana … (Hartford Courant)
MAINE
Lawmakers support sweeping changes to Maine’s medical marijuana rules (Press Herald)
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Marijuana Legalization Bill Has NH House Hearing Today (New Hampshire Public Radio)
NEW JERSEY
Marijuana Series: New Jersey Assembly Oversight, Reform and Federal Relations Committee … (Lexology)
Danielsen Holds First in Series of Marijuana Hearings (TAPinto.net)
NEW YORK
Columbia Care Introduces Novel Oral Medical Cannabis Product to New York Market (New Cannabis Ventures)
RHODE ISLAND
Recreational marijuana legalization takes a blow with commission … (WPRI 12 Eyewitness News)
VERMONT
VT bill would empower towns to limit marijuana odor (BurlingtonFreePress.com
Sceptical of LED lights, marijuana growers decry lighting efficiency rule(Boston Globe)
Signatures Forged on Utah Medical Marijuana Petitions and States Considering ‘Sanctuary’ Status .. (Cannabis Business Times)
Marijuana Midterms: NORML Releases Guide for Midterm Election Pot Push(Cannabis Now)
Sessions says US prosecutors won’t take on small-time marijuana cases (The Boston Globe)