May 13, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown, News
(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Thursday to open up banking to cannabis businesses, “the most significant step we’ve seen so far toward addressing our outdated federal marijuana policies,” according to Rep.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...
Feb 24, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
The owners of two potential cannabis businesses appeared before the select board last week to introduce themselves and lay the groundwork for negotiating host community agreements, the first step in the required approval process. David Pike of Coral Gables, Fla. and...
Feb 24, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
CBD shops are set to start popping up in malls throughout the Chicago area this spring, as the cannabis compound continues its march toward mainstream retail. Green Growth Brands, an Ohio-based cannabis company, plans to open shops selling its CBD-infused beauty...
Feb 24, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
SANDWICH – A proposed medical marijuana dispensary could be closer to reality in Sandwich. Selectmen voted 3-2 last week to support a non-opposition letter for a medical marijuana facility, owned In Good Health Inc., of Brockton, to be located at 449 Route 130....
Feb 20, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
SPRINGFIELD — Proponents of a proposed marijuana shop at 15 Hampden St. described it Tuesday night as a small, quiet and “classy” site, in a long-vacant downtown storefront that has just 500 square feet of retail space. Ezra Parzybok, a cannabis consultant for the new...
Feb 19, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
MASHPEE –Mashpee Selectmen have postponed a review of the six applicants for retail marijuana shops and have directed their town manager to come up with a process to evaluate them. Town Manager Rodney Collins has been asked to vet the applicants for “compliance with...
Feb 15, 2019 | Marijuana in Provincetown
Be careful where you stash your weed brownies. The legalization of marijuana in Massachusetts has come with a surge of edible products, giving an alternative to consumers and patients who don’t necessarily want to smoke, vape or take the drug otherwise. But humans are...
