Massachusetts has a political veteran for a new CCC chair
Massachusetts’ Cannabis Control Commission finally has a new chair. O’Brien’s selection rankled a few activists and business owners because of her lack of experience in cannabis.
New England
Coverage of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Connecticut SEC stays quiet amid a dozen lawsuits from rejected applicants
The Social Equity Council has not been clear about when social equity lotteries would take place, but this meeting did seem to indicate that most of those lotteries have happened.
Vermont’s outdoor grow culture is anticipating a short season
The CCB has been favoring outdoor license approvals, given that Vermont’s grow season is tightly bound between May and October. This means that although most of the license holders can grow outside, not everyone decided to take the plunge on a short season.
Four charts: Increasing sales in Midwest and New England, but some declining margins
Most Midwest states and New England sales totals generally stayed flat during the summer months.
1st Circuit strikes down residency requirement, affirms federal recognition of interstate cannabis commerce
The hammer finally dropped on Maine’s residency rule for medical operator ownership, after a federal appellate court found it in violation of the U.S. Constitution, striking it down.
Maine’s adult use market hits a milestone while competing with caregivers
Although a common refrain in states with nascent adult use markets is that the biggest competition comes from illicit sellers. In Maine, that competition largely comes from the medical caregiver market.
Massachusetts adult regs set for major overhaul
New England’s oldest adult use cannabis market is set for a regulatory overhaul now that Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker signed a major cannabis reform bill.
The path to legal weed in Connecticut runs through a bumbling Social Equity Council
A few weeks ago I predicted that the Social Equity Council was probably going to be sued over the state’s licensing process. I am not Nostradamus.
Where to look for dispensary closings
We need to look at three numbers that have the rapt attention of investors and operators alike: the ratio of dispensaries in a state to population and price per pound.
How New England’s puritan attitudes aligned against weed
“Next to obscene pictures, probably no vice is so absolutely destructive of manhood as the ‘dope vice,'” said the New England Watch and Ward Society’s 1912 report.
