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 to purchase New England Treatment Access, which operates a recreational marijuana store in Northampton, a medical dispensary in Brookline, and a cultivation facility in Franklin. […]
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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 to purchase New England Treatment Access, which operates a recreational marijuana store in Northampton, a medical dispensary in Brookline, and a cultivation facility in Franklin. […]
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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 a messaging problem and real hesitancy on the part of many communities, include those who voted for legalization, to open retail cannabis shops. At the […]
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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 treatment centers. Edwards introduced the measure after a cannabis company, OmniCann, announced its intent to open a retail shop on Porter Street in East Boston, […]
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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 to open in Massachusetts. The mayor of Northampton was given the honor of making the first purchase at the store there, while an Iraq veteran […]
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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 Patriots employee came here from his Mattapan home for two reasons. “Weed,” he said. “Weed and history. I need to find some real haze [a […]
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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 chaotic debut. There will be only two recreational cannabis stores open in the entire Commonwealth, and, in fact, the only two east of the Mississippi. […]
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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 just in time for the long Thanksgiving weekend. Cultivate in Leicester and New England Treatment Access in Northampton were given the green light Friday by […]
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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 like most news sites have to direct readers to sections of interest. There, among Metro, Sports, and Politics, wedged between Lifestyle and Arts, is the […]
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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 potential for wealthy investors to cash in on the billion-dollar industry and nudge smaller entrepreneurs to the side. They have labeled such corporate backers “Big […]