Massachusetts: The Marijuana Law Hits a Six-Month Speed Bump
A vote over the holidays puts the brakes on recreational pot shops.
It’s been two weeks of ups and downs for those celebrating Massachusetts’ new legal marijuana law. While many were taking their first-ever fully legal puffs inside their living rooms over the holidays, lawmakers gathered almost completely without public scrutiny to slow things down—keeping in place, for a little while longer, a temporary system that allows adults to possess and use marijuana, but not to sell it or to buy it in a store.
In case you missed it, a handful of legislators last week voted without warning in informal session to push back a key component of the law by six months. Now, the marijuana retail shops that were supposed to be cleared to open in January, 2018, will instead not be allowed to open until July 1, at the earliest. The vote also gives Treasurer Deb Goldberg,...
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