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Massachusetts Marijuana

BRIEFS: MASS DISPENSARY UPDATE FAQ

Written by DIG STAFF Posted May 5, 2015 Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Last Monday, a judge in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston officially noted what we have all known for a while ...

Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Brockton, Charlie Baker, Delahunt, Department of Public Health, Deval Patrick, DPH, Mashpee, Mass Dispensaries, Massachusetts Marijuana, medical marijuana, prohibition

LEGISLATORS SAY THE DUMBEST THINGS

Written by MIKE CANN Posted April 3, 2015 Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS

If they really cared about the opiate crisis, they would read up on cannabis ...

Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS Tagged With: Brad Jones, Cape & Islands, Charlie Baker, Cheryl Bartlett, David Sullivan, Massachusetts Marijuana, Michael O'Keefe, Miriam Boeri

CHARLIE AND THE CANNABIS DISPENSARY

Written by NICHOLE SNOW Posted January 5, 2015 Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Patients turn to Governor Baker to resolve marijuana access crisis

Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: cannabis dispensaries, Charlie Baker, Department of Public Health, Deval Patrick, DPH, legalization, Massachusetts Marijuana, Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, medical marijuana, MPAA, Nichole Snow, NORML

THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN, AND THEY WANT TO TAX AND REGULATE WEED

Written by MIKE CANN Posted November 13, 2014 Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

While these PPQs are non-binding, they set the stage for an expected 2016 statewide ballot initiative that the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), a national group based out of Washington, DC, will be funding with the aim of regulating marijuana the same way we do alcohol.

Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Bay State Repeal, Cape and Islands, DA O'Keefe, Dispensaries, DPFMA, Drug Policy Forum, Evan Falchuk, Mass elections, Massachusetts Marijuana, Mike Cann, pot, PPQs, United Independent Party, weed

100 MARIJUANA OVERDOSES (IN THE FANTASY WORLD OF DA BLODGETT)

Written by MIKE CANN Posted October 31, 2014 Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

The Daily News of Newburyport reports that Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett told a roomful of people that “the increased potency of cannabis … which is often laced with high percentages of THC, ecstasy or crystal meth” has been in part responsible for 100 heroin overdoses in his jurisdiction this year alone.

Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: DA Blodgett, Essex County, evidence, Heroin, Ignorance, leone, Massachusetts Marijuana, middlesex, opiates, overdoses, prosecutors, research

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