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News / Media Hits / Worcester Business Journal | Cannabis comes of age: Five years in, regulators face a new set of issues

June 12, 2023

Worcester Business Journal | Cannabis comes of age: Five years in, regulators face a new set of issues

When the first recreational cannabis dispensaries in Massachusetts opened in November 2018, their parking lots assumed a festive air as people lined up, sometimes for hours, to get the newly legal product. Nearly five years later, legal cannabis has become an unremarkable part of the state economy.

It has far surpassed cranberries as the state’s top crop, and it reached nearly $1.5 billion in sales in 2022. Today, cannabis businesses and the state and local leaders who regulate them are figuring out what normal is going to look like for an industry still unlike any other.

Read the full story at: https://www.wbjournal.com/article/cannabis-comes-of-age-five-years-in-regulators-face-a-new-set-of-issues

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