Cashin In on Profit Getty Images Cashin' In on Profit Dispensaries in Alaska are allowed to sell marijuana for recreational use to adults over the age of 21. Cannabis sales are taxed, so Alaska gets to enjoy the profits and put the money back into the community. Clear Skies and Hazy Eye...
The first medical marijuana dispensaries opened in Massachusetts in 2015. About a year later, the state broadly legalized marijuana for ages 21 and over. Home growing and gifting is allowed within limits. The first recreational marihuana shops are slated to open in the state in the coming weeks,...
“I'll only speak for myself. It wasn't a matter of if, but how do we do it,” she said. “You never want to be putting consumers and patients in a place where they don't have access to medicine." She said the commission also didn't want to...
Still-illegal storefront dispensaries are popping up in major cities, and mainstream companies like Shoppers Drug Mart and London Drugs are reportedly jockeying for a share of what’s predicted to be a very lucrative market—economists estimate it’ll be worth some $5 billion in annual tax ...
Cultivate in Leicester and New England Treatment Access in Northampton, have been given approval to sell their first baggies of bud and THC-infused treats after a three calendar day waiting period. Both already run medical marijuana dispensaries, but Tuesday will mark the first day they’re allowe...
After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation led by University of Massachusetts Amherst injury prevent
“While we’re pleased to see that the incidence is relatively low, we feel these cases are preventable, and the issue needs to be on the radar of policymakers and parents, particularly now that dispensaries are open for adult-use sales,” Whitehill says. ...
control of both legislative chambers for the first time in several years. But the effort failed amid friction over whether pot tax revenue would be committed to areas where marijuana arrests once were concentrated and how communities would get to choose whether to host dispensaries, among...
medical marijuana dispensaries. But more than anything, the No on I-502 activists are deeply concerned that a DUI provision in I-502 will penalize medical marijuana patients who drive with active THC in their blood, even a day or a week after the last time they got high. Over the past f...
residents received the right to grow up to four cannabis plants and legally possess an ounce of weed. Medical patients can go toone of four dispensariesin the state. Cannabis can be shared but not purchased for adult use. Sharing rules have allowed someunlicensed pop-upsto open across the st...