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PATIENTS VS. PROFITS: MEDICAL CANNABIS CONSUMERS CONCERNED ABOUT RECREATIONAL ROLLOUT

Written by MICHELLE NOVACK HERMAN Posted February 1, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, Talking Joints Memo

We aren’t talking about the Gap running out of size 4 skinny jeans for a week. We are talking about medicine that allows people to function and sometimes even to live.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, Talking Joints Memo Tagged With: #mapoli, cannabis, Cannabis Control Commission, Commonwealth, Mass, Massachusetts, medical marijuana, MMA, MPAA, patients, politics CCC, regulations, weed

THE ADVOCATES: ACKNOWLEDGING A MAJOR RIFT IN THE MASS MARIJUANA MOVEMENT

Written by MIKE CRAWFORD Posted April 5, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, The Tokin' Truth

“Why can’t we just grow the plant and allow businesses to supply those who want it?”

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, The Tokin' Truth Tagged With: advocacy, Boston, Boston Globe, Canna Better Consulting, cannabis, Commonwealth, Dan Adams, DPH, Leafly, legalization, Marijuana, Massachusetts, Mike Crawford, MPAA

DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE PATIENTS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 4, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, The Tokin' Truth

The battle for medical marijuana continues in post-prohibition Mass

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, The Tokin' Truth Tagged With: Bay State, cannabis, Cannabis Control Commission, Commonwealth, Department of Public Health, DPH, legalization, Marijuana, Massachusetts, MMA, MPAA, Nichole Snow, pot

A MONTH OF MASS MARIJUANA REFORM: PREPARE TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON BEACON HILL

Written by MIKE CANN Posted July 29, 2015 Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS

A MONTH OF MASS MARIJUANA REFORM: PREPARE TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON BEACON HILL

Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Bob Lobel, Jill Hitchman-Osborn, legalization, Lisa Cole, marijuana reform, medical marijuana, MPAA, State House

STATE HOUSE SMOKE SIGNALS

Written by MIKE CANN Posted January 29, 2015 Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Senate President Rosenberg should realize that reformers only turned in that direction because, after decades of hearings, studies, and doubletalk at the State House, there have been no laws passed.

Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ballot measures, Dispensaries, legalization, legalization bills, Mass Patient Advocacy Alliance, Massachusetts, Matt Allen, medical marijuana, MPAA, Nichole Snow, Stan Rosenberg, state legislature

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 YEAR THE DPH AND GOVERNOR PATRICK TOTALLY SCREWED PATIENTS

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

The MPAA, among others, hoped the DPH might finish vetting applications in early 2014 and move on to opening dispensaries in the fall.

Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Andrew D'Angelo, Cambridge City Council, Department of Public Health, Deval Patrick, DPH, KOP, Marijuana, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, medical marijuana, MPAA, patients

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