Garden Remedies, which has been a medical marijuana dispensary at 697 Washington Street since 2016, can start selling recreational marijuana this week. The Grand Opening for recreational marijuana sales could be as early as Saturday, Newton Patch reports.
Garden Remedies will be 16th adult-use retail establishment to open in the Commonwealth and the second in Greater Boston. In March, a medical marijuana dispensary expanded to offer recreational pot on the corner of in Brookline Village. While the town was concerned about possible long lines and traffic there, opening week went without issue.
What is our city’s policy regarding the electronic traffic sign trailers that is owns?
The one on Washington Street last week was essentially advertising for Garden Remedies; advising patrons to use meter parking.
I recall similar messages when Wegman’s opened.
Finally, a photo-op Mayor Fuller will surely skip.
In case it’s not already clear, Garden Remedies is by appointment only, so anyone who goes there without booking in advance will be disappointed.
@Peter,
I saw these signs and took them as a warning that parking was limited on the site, not that the City was advertising for GR.
I think I’ll take a trip down there when my current “stash” of CBD oil runs out. There are some surprisingly great effects I’ve felt from what I’ve used so far. We have deep outside aerial ways shielding our cellar windows. Today was the first time in 2 years that I’ve been able to jump nimbly into two of them to plant a shrub and spread mulch on the garden beds. I’m reconsidering an earlier decision to not sail this season. The only drawback is that I’m still not certain what “dosage” I need to be effective. I’ve heard the folks at Garden Remedies are well versed in all of this., so I’ll go down to mingle with folks who are searching out the bewitching weed.
Mike, I am imagining that she will do the whole photo op thing and then pat herself on the back for its success, in spite of everything that has happened leading up to it.
This is a legal, locally owned, business. And, just as Mayor Fuller attends openings and ribbon cuttings for many local businesses, it would be great if she attended this one as well.
@Mike, in this week’s emailed newsletter from Mayor Fuller, she appears in only four photos. She’s clearly slacking off!
One reason I find it difficult to get firm statistics about dosage suggestions for CBD is because, until quite recently, it was lumped in with marijuana as a Class I substance. The Federal Government was forbidden to do research on anything associated with the marijuana plant. Everyone knew (or should have known) that CBD had no mind changing qualities, but the fear driven opposition to it has left me and others in a kind of limbo with regard to the dosage I should be taking. I know there are millions of Americans who would sing to the rafters if CBD could eventually lead them to abandon some of the chemical medicines they now take with all the attendant side effects these carry. Insanity.
@Bob…I agree that if they are going to make cannabis and CBD legal there should be studies required to assess their safety and effectiveness if they are going to be touted as therapeutic. In order to claim that any drug is safe and effective, you must do controlled randomized trials. If you want the government, in this case FDA, to label these products as safe and effective for an indication, they would need to go through the same review process that the “chemical medications” have to go through. If that happened, you may be surprised to see what the side effects of cannabis and CBD would be based on these studies.
The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (the 2018 Farm Bill) was passed, it established a new category of cannabis classified as “hemp” – defined as cannabis and cannabis derivatives with extremely low (no more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis) concentrations of the psychoactive compound delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). The 2018 Farm Bill removed hemp from the Controlled Substances Act, which means that it is no longer a controlled substance under federal law.
Various compounds, including CBD oil, can now be studied by the federal government and the FDA and the NIH is studying it now. (Cannabinol, CBD is non-psychoactive which means that it will not get the user high.)
Without these studies, it will continue to be difficult to determine dosage.
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