Marijuana patients grateful they 'don't have to hide' anymore

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Friday was the official grand opening ceremony for western Massachusetts’ first medical marijuana dispensary. Patients were able to walk in and legally buy marijuana. It’s something they say they’ve been waiting for, for a long time.

“This is the best day of my life,” said Mark Ceria of Holyoke. Mark is a local artist who is living with severe nerve pain in his legs. He’s confined to a wheelchair. “A little puff of maybe some pineapple skunk marijuana makes music sound better and my life a lot easier in a wheelchair.”

Ceria and nearly 200 others patients this week have gotten medical marijuana, legally, for the first time at the England Treatment Access Dispensary on Conz Street.

“I heard a man who was 70 years old say to me yesterday, I can finally do this legally. I don’t have to hide anymore. That’s the best part. Not hiding it...

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