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DAVID CROSS HAS CHANGED A LOT SINCE HE CAME OF COMEDIC AGE IN BOSTON. FOR STARTERS, HE’S FAMOUS NOW.
"It’s this antiquated thing that shows you how much innocence we’ve lost in just a number of years."
KNOW THE REGS: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW WITH JUST UNDER A MONTH TO GO
A green-hot update on the applications in the Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) pipeline. You’ll have to read to the end to see if Mass will really have full retail operations up and running by July 1.
INTRODUCING: BOSTONERS
I often wonder if when I’m 90 on my deathbed if I’ll look back on the 100 hours I spent playing Skyrim fondly, or as a waste of time. Hopefully I’ll be so baked I don’t give a shit.
MEDICAL CANNABIS SPECIAL: TREATING YOURSELF
When Western medicine failed, these patients designed their own successful cannabis regimens
CONSUMER REPORTS: FLOWER POWER CBD COFFEE
At first sip, Flower Power has a rather complex and robust flavor with a smooth finish, something like fresh coconut oil. It’s from a Jamaican blue mountain-style bean, with a dark, dark brown color resembling a cocoa bean.
DISPATCH FROM THE FIRST MASS CANNABIS BUSINESS ASSOCIATION MEETING
Whether you are in the application process to open a marijuana business in Mass, or you’re simply anticipating legal weed across the commonwealth, the comments Cannabis Control Commission Chair Steven Hoffman delivered at the first Mass Cannabis Business Association meetup, held Tuesday at the UMass Club on Beacon Hill, may offer the most insight to date into how far Mass has come on this adventure, as well as into how far we still have to go.
KNOW THE REGS: OPERATING VEHICLES WHILE STONED
There have already been some battles, sure. And we heard countless lines about the dangers of stoned driving from plenty of prohibitionists while our state’s recreational cannabis law was in limbo. But that has been a minor fender bender compared to the crash between reality and ideology that lies ahead.
WE WENT ON A FACT-FINDING MISSION TO A CALI DAB BAR
This may be one of the first full-service cannabis clubs in Cali, at least of the fully legal kind, but it seems to have gotten it quite right already. At least from where I’m sitting, where, after selecting from an absolutely dizzying array of shatters and assorted other extracts, I melted down some of the wax I purchased in one of the three rigs waiting to facilitate a sticky situation in a relatively sterile fashion.
KNOW THE REGS: CULTIVATION OPPORTUNITIES
When it comes to cannabis growing in Mass, these tiers go to 11