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Mass. Senate President: Medical Marijuana Process Has Been 'Total Mess'

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 04/08/2015 - 08:00

Senate President Stanley C. Rosenberg today described the medical marijuana process in the Bay State as a “total mess,” responding to questions about bureaucratic delays that have prevented the opening of dispensaries.

“The ballot question had a lot of problems in it, it’s been very difficult to implement and doing 30 or so licenses across the commonwealth, it has been very, very hard and it is not good that it has taken this long,” Rosenberg said this morning during an appearance on Boston Herald Radio’s “Morning Meeting” program.

Noting that some medical marijuana dispensaries in Massachusetts are “about ready to open,” Rosenberg slammed the medical marijuana ballot question that was approved by voters in 2012 as an “awkwardly written law.”

“It’s taken too long but we’re about to have some openings and they just have to keep working at it,” Rosenberg told hosts Jaclyn Cashman and Hillary Chabot. “This is very...

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