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The Mass Municipalities Spending Opioid Mitigation Money On Police

1 week ago | talkingjointsmemo.com | Jonathan Gerhardson

Just months after Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and attorneys general from other states announced a new $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family this January, on March 18, the company filed for Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The deal will see the Sackler family pay state, local, and tribal governments around $6.5 billion over 15 years.
New Product Review: Buzzy Grape Soda Gummies

1 week ago | talkingjointsmemo.com | Chris Faraone

I mourn the disappearance of Formula 50. For those who missed the short halcyon era when hip-hop embraced everything purple, from drinks to minks, the sorely missed beverage was 50 Cent’s flavor of Vitaminwater, the sale of which earned the rap mogul a reported hundred-mill (or perhaps more fittingly, two-hundred million half-dollars).
License Caps, Market Saturation, And More: Cannabis Stakeholders Testify On Beacon Hill

2 weeks ago | talkingjointsmemo.com | Chris Faraone

In one sense, things are looking up around the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission. The agency’s new Executive Director Travis Ahern seems to have a handle on the stressed bureaucracy, while initiatives like social consumption which have long been on the back burner are seeing light. On the other hand, there is no shortage of problems and complications afoot.
Mass IG Calls On Cannabis Regulators To Conduct Audit

3 weeks ago | talkingjointsmemo.com | Bhaamati Borkhetaria

Massachusetts Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro called on the Cannabis Control Commission to conduct an audit following the commission’s failure to collect approximately $550,000 in licensing fees since August 2022.
Massachusetts Cannabis Regulators Focus On Social Consumption Details

4 weeks ago | talkingjointsmemo.com | Chris Faraone

All hands were on deck during this week’s meeting of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission. Months after members delivered an initial framework and then draft regulations for social consumption last December, they assembled with collaborators from various parts of the agency to nail down specifics, including with input from in-house analysts, attorneys, and enforcement officials.
Retaliatory Inspection Of A Connecticut Cannabis Cultivator? DCP apologizes.

4 weeks ago | talkingjointsmemo.com | Mark Pazniokas

The state Department of Consumer Protection apologized Friday for conducting what appeared to be a retaliatory inspection at a cannabis cultivator Thursday, a day after the company’s chief executive offered testimony at the General Assembly criticizing DCP testing protocols on recreational marijuana.
High On Tech: Three Innovations Spotted At NECANN 2025

4 weeks ago | talkingjointsmemo.com | Dana Forsythe

Walking the floor of NECANN can be disorienting and thrilling at once. Especially if you’re looking for cool new technology. This year’s convention featured more than a dozen robots at work, jarring practice dabs or infusing, rolling, and packaging joints. Meanwhile, cannabis brands of all sizes offered swag and samples, while hardware companies showed off new devices like two-gram vapes with bright branding.
NJ Governor Hopefuls Support Homegrown Cannabis

1 month ago | talkingjointsmemo.com | Sophie Nieto-Munoz

New Jersey is one of the only states that legalized marijuana but doesn’t allow people to grow their own cannabis at home, and most of the candidates hoping to become our next governor want to change that. In the six-person race to win the Democratic Party’s nomination to succeed Gov.
10 Trends Spotted At NECANN 2025

1 month ago | talkingjointsmemo.com | Chris Faraone

Before I even start this list I need to note that I was only one of several thousand people who inhaled NECANN this past week, and that the observations below do not necessarily reflect those of, say, all or even very many cannabis business owners, consumers, or budtenders. To imply such an omnipotent perspective would be preposterous.
Worth The Trip: NECANN Boston’s First-Ever Psychedelics Track

1 month ago | talkingjointsmemo.com | Jack Gorsline

It’s that time of year again. That magical, slightly overcast weather known to blanket New England in mid-to-late March has arrived like clockwork, signaling the return of the now-11th annual NECANN Boston, taking place this weekend at the Hynes Convention Center in Back Bay. With the convention primed for a proper expansion track for a few years, the 2025 edition will feature an exciting new avenue focused entirely on psychedelics.