Tag: Community Impact and Social Equity Plans

Massachusetts cannabis dispensaries are currently suing the state over the new, contentious, delivery regulations.  Specifically, the dispensaries involved in the suit have a problem with the fact that only certain disenfranchised business owners will be able to deliver cannabis for the first three years, in order to try and make… Read more

Chris Fevry, an applicant and advocate for cannabis delivery in Massachusetts, feels a lawsuit filed against the Cannabis Control Commission over its new delivery regulations is “a direct attack on equity.” “I’m at a loss for words,” Fevry said. “It’s just an attack on equity. There’s not really any other… Read more

A COALITION OF marijuana dispensaries has made good on the threat to sue state regulators over new regulations governing home delivery of marijuana, in a case that is illustrating the contentious divide among various segments of the state’s young marijuana industry.   When the Cannabis Control Commission approved the marijuana delivery regulations in… Read more

Dispensaries across Massachusetts are suing the Bay State’s Cannabis Control Commission over new delivery license regulations…. Read more

BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Leaders of the Massachusetts' cannabis industry spoke out Wednesday against a lawsuit that is seeking to void the state's new rules establishing adult-use marijuana delivery services. The Commonwealth Dispensary Association filed its lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court on January 13th, arguing the Cannabis Control Commissions' new… Read more

Marijuana dispensaries are suing the state board that oversees the industry over its new regulations that only allow members of certain disenfranchised groups to deliver cannabis products for the first three years, saying that stipulation violates state law…. Read more

VA gov slams racist marijuana laws; Incoming RI gov backs legal cannabis but not state stores; USDA “superior” hemp grant; $2B in CO sales in 2020 Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are… Read more

Colin A. Young  |  State House News Service Making good on a warning issued months ago, the organization that represents most of the state's marijuana retailers is suing the Cannabis Control Commission to invalidate the new regulations that create a separate category of businesses allowed to deliver non-medical marijuana directly… Read more

With Democrats poised to take over both Congress and the White House, there is one industry set for a dramatic expansion in 2021: the cannabis industry. “We believe there’s no better time to be in the cannabis sector,” Joe Bayern, CEO of Curaleaf, recently told Joe Mathieu on Morning Edition…. Read more

The Commonwealth Dispensary Association opposed the commission's regulations while they were in development last year and last week filed suit…. Read more

Marijuana retailers in Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against the state’s Cannabis Control Commission’s rules that allow only social equity applicants to deliver cannabis for the program’s first three years. The Commonwealth Dispensary Association contends that preventing marijuana retailers from delivering cannabis under their existing retail licenses violates a statute allowing… Read more

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Expanded Capacity at MCC Allows Bask to Meet Growing Demand from Additional Retail Licenses BOSTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / January 19, 2021 / AmeriCann, Inc. (OTCQB:ACAN), a cannabis company that develops state-of-the-art cultivation processing and product manufacturing facilities, announced that on January 19, 2021 the Company entered into an agreement… Read more

As states report cannabis sales numbers for 2020, record highs continue across the country. It’s become a billion-dollar business for several states, blowing out levels that states had estimated when originally planning legalization. Billion Dollar Club Colorado The Colorado Department of Revenue reported that cannabis sales in the state passed $2… Read more

Jenny Roseman and Philip Smith first imagined running a small cannabis operation, just the two of them making THC-infused gummies. The vision has evolved into something much larger, as the co-founders of Freshly Baked out of Taunton are poised to become among the first to deliver recreational cannabis in Massachusetts…. Read more