Over the last 6 months, raising capital in the cannabis market has been a lot like raising capital to buy condos during the depths of the recession.
FATE OF THE CITY
What Mayor Walsh’s annual address didn’t say about global warming
SLOW NEWS NEVER: HOW TO FOLLOW AND CONSUME (MORE) LOCAL NEWS IN GREATER BOSTON IN 2020
I want to revisit the extent to which you, DigBoston readers, can help us in the reporting and also the news dissemination process.
RESPONSES TO OUR “CULTURAL REHASH” EDITORIAL
A range of views from readers
WHEN MASSACHUSETTS WAS SOCIALIST
Experiments in co-operative economics started in the colonial era
A NOTE ON THE CURRENT ANTI-WAR PROTESTS
Following the US assassination of a high-ranking Iranian commander
BOSTON: IT SUCKS LESS THAN DETROIT
A look at the Hub’s points of relative pride
WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN? AS LEGAL CANNABIS HAS ROLLED OUT, WE HEAR THE BATTLE CRY AGAIN… AND AGAIN…
Retailers should not be allowed to be within 2,000 feet of a playground, daycare, school, place of worship, or statue of any historical figure.
CHUCK TURNER, 1940-2019
In the long relay race of oppressed communities and the global working class, Chuck Turner picked up the baton in the 1960s as a young activist in the Northern Student Movement (a wing of the civil rights movement). By Christmas Day 2019 when he walked on, that beginning had been eclipsed by a series of powerful base-building projects—many that at once challenged the ruling class while creatively empowering the excluded and the exploited.
THE CHILL ZONE: CUMBERLAND FARMS COULD BLOW UP THE MASS CANNABIS MARKET IN 2020
With its massive network, Cumberland Farms apparently wants to sell more alcoholic beverages and has successfully placed a question on the 2020 ballot that could lift the state’s cap on the number of liquor licenses that can be owned by a single retailer, and also forge a new class of beer and wine license for food stores
