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Baker trying to weed out problems for Bay State medical marijuana sale

Submitted by Marijuana News on Sun, 06/21/2015 - 08:00

Baker trying to weed out problems for Bay State medical marijuana sale

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Gov. Charlie Baker has given a three-month waiver to medical marijuana dispensary Alternative Therapy Group of Salem, allowing the dispensary to sell marijuana without having to meet all the state’s testing requirements.

Alternative Therapy Group has been growing medical marijuana at its cultivation center in Amesbury since December, the first in the state approved to grow the drug.

But the dispensary hasn’t been able to sell its product because its labs are not able to complete required pesticide testing for 7 of the 18 mandates pesticide tests, the Department of Public Health said in a release.

“Patients have waited to access marijuana for medical purposes for far too long,” said Governor Charlie Baker, in a release. “This waiver will allow industry laboratories a little more time to...

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