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Important Public Health and Safety Information for Massachusetts Licensees, Agents, and Certifying Healthcare Providers | November 16, 2023
The Cannabis Control Commission (Commission) is grateful to partner with the Department of Public Health (DPH) to ensure Massachusetts’ legal cannabis industry is safe. Their Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) report and Occupational Lung Disease Bulletin—along with a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report—released Thursday, November 16, 2023, will be valuable tools in our continued efforts to ensure worker protections are strong at licensed marijuana facilities.
Our interagency collaboration and work with other experts, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, remains essential and ongoing. We welcome DPH’s recommendation that the Commission share identified best practices with licensees and their employees to ensure they have awareness of all known harms in the cannabis workplace. To that end, the Commission is making these important findings immediately available to our constituents.
In general, scientific understanding like this will help keep our agents safe, and we look forward to ongoing research into all health issues associated with our developing industry to ensure workers, patients, and consumers know the risks.
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