Jul 15, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
A new glossy magazine has launched that plans to cover the cannabis industry in Massachusetts. The premiere issue of Different Leaf magazine, published in Northampton, debuted this month. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with the magazine’s...
Jul 8, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
BOSTON — Marijuana users could get high at “cafes” or have the drug delivered to their doorstep under new rules being weighed by state regulators, though it may be a long time before those services are available. The state’s five-member Cannabis...
Jun 26, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
State marijuana regulators spent Tuesday hashing out final details of the new rules governing both the medical and non-medical marijuana sectors, and plan to reconvene Thursday to vote to accept the draft regulations. The Cannabis Control Commission worked through...
Jun 17, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
It’s only been six short months since “adult use” recreational cannabis became legal and Massachusetts dispensaries opened their doors for sales. In only half a year, the state has nearly doubled its original projections on sales. In a report by MJBizdaily, as of the...
Jun 10, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
On May 20, three adults collapsed in a Cape Cod restaurant after trying edibles for the first time and apparently took a relatively high dose. One woman fainted and her two companions were soon lying semi-conscious on the ground. While the unfortunate incident is not...
Jun 3, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
Curaleaf, a Massachusetts-based, vertically integrated cannabis company, reported first-quarter revenue of $35.3 million, up from $9.1 million for the same period in 2018. Net loss for the company in the period totaled $10.8 million versus $3.4 million last year. Read...
May 27, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
WELLFLEET — The confusion over cannabis businesses that reigned at the select board’s April 9 meeting continued unabated on May 14 as the board talked in circles for 80 minutes before taking no action either on limiting the number of such stores or on granting a fifth...
May 13, 2019 | News, Marijuana in Provincetown
(ptownie is grateful to Acting Town Manager David Gardner for supplying us with the Ptown update!) Where and when? So here’s the scoop on what you need to know about our soon-to-be-in-place marijuana dispensaries! All seven dispensaries (BWell, Curaleaf, Green Harbor,...
May 13, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
Skylar Martin, a 21-year-old from Hollis, New Hampshire, had been struggling to get her career off the ground. Restaurant jobs and a try at massage therapy didn’t click. A medical marijuana patient in New Hampshire, Ms. Martin knew that cannabis, and connecting with...
May 8, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
From Acting Town Manager David Gardner: Under the medicinal marijuana statute, which went into effect in 2013, qualifying patients 18 years of age or older with certain debilitating medical conditions can possess and use marijuana if they have a physician...
Apr 1, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
A key U.S. House committee voted Thursday to open up banking to cannabis businesses, “the most significant step we’ve seen so far toward addressing our outdated federal marijuana policies,” according to Rep. Earl Blumenauer, a Portland Democrat and congressional...
Mar 25, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
Despite the weed dust settling on the novelty of legal recreational pot in Massachusetts months ago, Saturday was a historic moment for Mike Lutkevich. He’s been using marijuana, non-medicinally, for about 45 years. NETA (New England Treatment Access) in...
Mar 18, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
Marijuana and the LGBTQ community go way back, but will the emergent legal cannabis market leave them behind. The movement to legalize marijuana at the federal level survived the tenure of Jeff Session as Attorney General and, now, thanks to several new bills and...
Mar 11, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
The rollout of the recreational marijuana industry in Massachusetts has been slow. And it has barely begun for two important sectors: minority entrepreneurs and residents of neighborhoods that have been disproportionately hurt by the war on drugs. Those are people and...
Mar 4, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
The marijuana industry is about to get sexier. A cannabis-infused lubricant is hitting dispensary shelves this week for the first time in Massachusetts, and the product’s creators hope it revolutionizes the way people think about marijuana. “We designed Purient to...
