Barney Frank to Cannabis Control Commission: ‘I told you so’
From a State House News story posted on Wicked Local Newton…
“You can see I am getting old, but there is one thing that I have found improves with age and that is the pleasure of being able to say, ‘I told you so,’”
Marijuana retailer to hold community meeting Thursday
Ascend Massachusetts is holding a community meeting Thursday on its proposed recreational marijuana shop at the site of the former Beacon Hill Athletic Club at the corner of Cross and Washington Streets. The meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. 7 p.m., Thursday, July 18 at...Auchincloss: Citizens United comes to Newton
This was originally published in City Coucilor Jake Auchincloss’ email newsletter Two local corporations have spent $500K+ to campaign and lobby for retail pot. Sanctioned by Citizens United, they spent $328K in campaign contributions to defeat last year’s...Up next: Marijuana cafes?
The advisory board to the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission is backing the creation of cannabis cafes and pot-consumption events, voting unanimously for the state to develop regulations around the licenses, the Boston Business Journal reports....Fuller: Newton’s first recreational marijuana shop could open in 2-3 months
It’s a sad reflection on our media today that most of our news comes from the mayor’s community emails….but here’s the latest.
Mayor’s Update
Let me give you a few updates on recreational marijuana:
Zoning: The City Council is considering adding some manufacturing areas in Newton as sites for medical and recreational retailers.
Garden Remedies: Garden Remedies (and two other retail marijuana dispensaries in Brookline and Framingham) received provisional licenses from the state within the past two weeks, meaning all three will likely open in the
Here we go again: NIMBYs still looking to block recreational marijuana
It was apparently déjà vu all over again when a “small crowd” brought up all the usual complaints regarding Cypress Tree Management’s plans for a co-located medical marijuana dispensary/recreational store on Elliot Street and Route 9, the TAB...
Mary jane at Mary Ann’s and manufacturing zones
The prospect of the bar Mary Ann’s — located just over the Newton line at Cleveland Circle — become a recreational marijuana shop is worrying some abutters and Boston College Police Chief William Evans.
Meanwhile here in Newton Ward 6 Councilor Greg Schwartz sent the email below yesterday to the Newton Highlands list serve in response to objections about his proposal to add some manufacturing zoning districts to the allowable locations for recreational
Newton finally has zoning rules for adult-use recreational marijuana stores
Just under 25 months after Newton and Massachusetts first voted to approve adult-use recreational marijuana, the Newton City Council finally approved, 19-3, the zoning regulations that will allow up to eight retail cannabis stores to open here Monday night. It will...
Joe Kennedy: It’s time to legalize marijuana at the federal level
Like pretty much everything Congressman Joe Kennedy does, there’s a lot of thought behind his op-ed in STAT today. Kennedy explores how and why his thinking has changed on cannabis and he doesn’t dismiss the risks. And his comments touch a lot of the...
Is there any merit to Opt-Out’s election math?
More than a week after Newton voters voted against a ballot question that would have banned recreational marijuana shops from opening here — as well as a second ballot quesiton that would have capped the number of stores to between 2 to 4 — some ban...
The path from here for recreational marijuana shops
Now that Newton residents decided the city will be allowed to have up to eight retail marijuana shops, the next step before any store can open is for the City Council to vote on zoning, the TAB’s Julie Cohen reports. That includes review of the proposed...