Chris Faraone

1 week ago | horizonmass.news | Chris Faraone

After many months of planning on our part and nearly a decade of design and truly remarkable restoration on the part of the City of Cambridge and its countless contractors and collaborators, we are thrilled to play a part in the upcoming opening month of programming for the Cambridge KiOSK. The project is a partnership between the nonprofit CultureHouse and the Cambridge Office for Tourism, unfolding in the former stortied Out of Town News kiosk in Harvard Square.

3 weeks ago | talkingjointsmemo.com | Chris Faraone

As I see it, any film in which a pro- or antagonist is committed to cannabis is as much a weed movie as any dumb buddy bong flick. So while the image of Ice Cube in Higher Learning (1995) sorting a tray full of grass with a pick in his puff is a classic, and Outside Providence (1999) is a personal fave that I think many would label as burnable media, my instinct to follow the character before the story leads me away from that pack and toward one estimable Grady Tripp.

3 weeks ago | talkingjointsmemo.com | Chris Faraone

Maybe it’s because I visit medical dispensaries when I’m shopping for quantity. Or perhaps it is due to my tendency to purchase just an elite eighth of flower or maybe a gram or two of concentrate when I visit adult-use stores. But whatever the case is, it’s now clear that I haven’t paid enough attention to the absurd rules around cannabis purchasing limits in Massachusetts. Of course, I’ve heard the cries of others for some time.

3 weeks ago | talkingjointsmemo.com | Chris Faraone

Up to this point in the process of drafting regulations for licensed social cannabis consumption in Massachusetts, the inclusion of alcohol has been a non-starter.

3 weeks ago | talkingjointsmemo.com | Chris Faraone

On Monday, May 12, the Cannabis Control Commission is scheduled to continue combing through the draft of regulations for the social consumption of marijuana in Massachusetts. Though the rules still have to be completed and consecrated by the state powers that be, the meeting nonetheless reflects momentum forward in a process that has been ushered along for several years by commissioners Bruce Stebbins and Nurys Camargo in particular.