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By adamg - 3/13/24 - 11:06 am

Gov. Healey said today she wants to issue automatic pardons to everybody ever convicted of misdemeanor marijuana-possession charges in Massachusetts. Read more.

By adamg - 3/13/24 - 10:53 am
Revised rendering of Green Line facility

Updated rendering showing cafe.

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by Mario Signore to change his proposed three-story cannabis factory at 100 Hampden St. to include a ground-floor marijuana store and a separate cafe. Read more.

By adamg - 3/13/24 - 10:27 am

The Zoning Board of Appeal next month considers an application for a marijuana grow facility and home-delivery center at 1457 VFW Parkway in West Roxbury, where Party City and Chair Fair used to be. Read more.

By adamg - 1/29/24 - 9:27 am

CommonWealth Beacon takes a look at the intersection of old-school Somerville politics and new-school marijuana licensing next door in Medford - in a story that will culminate next month when a former Somerville alderman is sentenced for attempting to bribe the Medford police chief to get his client's dispensary approved in that city.

By adamg - 12/10/23 - 11:47 am

Watertown News reports on a man who walked into a local marijuana shop, ordered up $36 worth of "pre-rolled marijuana cigarettes," then pulled out what appeared to be a gun and announced he'd be paying for them "the old fashioned way" and walked out with the product.

By adamg - 11/15/23 - 10:04 am

The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a marijuana dispensary at 1295-1297 River St., in Hyde Park, but owner Geneise Israel said that even if she now quickly gets the required state approval, she won't open her door until after the decaying and now closed River Street Bridge right next door is re-opened. Read more.

By adamg - 11/13/23 - 9:38 pm

The Hamilton Co., which owns the office building at 392-398 Chestnut Hill Ave. in Cleveland Circle, today sued to try to block plans by an Ipswich concern to turn the former Dunkin' Donuts on Beacon Street into a marijuana dispensary. Read more.

By adamg - 10/31/23 - 3:17 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a plans to replace Cathedral Station, 1222 Washington St. in the South End, with a marijuana dispensary. Read more.

By adamg - 10/6/23 - 4:55 pm

A South Carolina lender focusing on the marijuana industry today asked a judge to let him take control of Middlesex Integrative Medicine, which has a dispensary in Norwood and a growing facility in Leominster, because he says it's no longer paying him back on millions in loans and its Leominster plant is no longer producing enough product to keep the company afloat. Read more.

By adamg - 10/6/23 - 1:37 pm

Chris Faraone at Talking Joints Memo covers the week in pot, and what a week it was: The suspended chair of the state cannabis commission suspended, for now, her suit against the state treasurer, Massachusetts marijuana marketers are beginning to hit economic headwinds and it looks like one grower that fled the state after one of its workers died could be in for a fine.

By adamg - 9/28/23 - 4:38 pm
O'Brien

Shannon O'Brien today sued state Treasurer Deb Goldberg to try to keep Goldberg from firing her as chair of the state Cannabis Control Commission, saying that Goldberg doesn't even have the authority to fire her, let alone because of allegedly bogus allegations of wrongdoing by staffers who don't want anyone telling them what to do. Read more.

By adamg - 8/10/23 - 9:28 am

The owners of a dispensary on Boylston Street between Gloucester and Fairfield streets in the Back Bay yesterday sued the operators of a proposed dispensary three blocks down the street - and the Zoning Board of Appeal, which approved both. Read more.

By adamg - 8/7/23 - 11:15 am
Boston cops doing annual marijuana harvest on Willow Court in Dorchester

In August, 1951, Bryon Campbell, a photographer for the Boston Herald, photographed an unusual annual harvest on Willow Court, a short, narrow street behind what is now the South Bay mall: Read more.

By adamg - 7/12/23 - 3:03 pm
Security door at old Dunkin' Donuts

Company cited this existing secured door, said it would remain for pot deliveries, cash pickups.

The Boston Cannabis Commission will decide whether to let a marijuana chain move its proposed dispensary from the former Mary Ann's on Beacon Street in Cleveland Circle to the former Dunkin' Donuts about 100 feet down the street. Read more.

By adamg - 6/6/23 - 2:47 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a request from the operators of a marijuana store now under construction on South Street in Roslindale to override a 2021 board decision barring Sunday sales. Read more.

By Oliver Blake - 5/16/23 - 10:48 pm

The Boston Cannabis Board today approved closing-hour extensions at marijuana dispensaries in Back Bay, Roxbury, Dorchester and Roslindale. Read more.

By adamg - 5/9/23 - 3:39 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a marijuana store on Atlantic Avenue at Beach Street. Read more.

By adamg - 3/22/23 - 10:47 am

And the Belmont blogger whom the state Cannabis Control Commission inadvertently e-mailed personal information on 17,000 Massachusetts cannabis workers - and former workers - is now in hiding. GBH reports on the case, which may stem from a commission investigation into the way a sanctioned Russian oligarch may have been funding one particular company that operates in Massachusetts.

By adamg - 3/1/23 - 11:57 am

Boston Police report arresting an employee at Seed, 401 Centre St. in Hyde Square, for the Glock with a bullet in the chamber and two magazines loaded with a total of 35 bullets they say he brought to work yesterday - two days after a dispensary in Roslindale was robbed at gunpoint. Read more.

By adamg - 2/26/23 - 12:25 pm

Sampan reports on ongoing efforts to keep dispensaries out of Chinatown. One argument: Unlike other places where pot shops have opened, Chinatown isn't just a commercial area, it's one of the most densely populated residential parts of Boston.

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