While Brockton drags its feet on cannabis, an entrepreneur perseveres in spite of prohibitionists
CANNABIS CHAMPIONS: AN UPDATE ON THE BROCKTON FRONT
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BLUE CRACK: WHAT’S IN A STRAIN NAME (BESIDES INSENSITIVITY AND PERHAPS ACCURACY)?
Blue Crack should be a go-to for everyday workers and artists alike. That’s my primary reason for writing this, though I’m also hoping to spur some discussion about the name.
FIELD OF GREEN: CATCHING UP WITH THE DORCHESTER DISPENSARY HOPEFULS FROM HOLISTIC HEALTH GROUP
“You start with the application of intent, you throw your hat in the ring, and you realize how big of a thing you’re getting into."
GUEST OPINION: THANKS BUT NO THANKS
So no, absent a demonstrated commitment to improve, you may not use my name or my credibility towards repairing your damaged reputation.
THE END OF THE WEED AS WE KNOW IT?
It’s 2012. One has to hope this changes sometime soon. Not just in New York and Mass, but from coast to coast to coast.
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.
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
