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Bonnie Sashin smelled it wafting on State Street. Cathy Kleinbart gets a daily whiff on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. Asya Partan encountered it while waiting to cross the BU Bridge. "A couple of guys opened a window and a cloud blew out," she said. Samantha Shapiro's children smell it so...

Independence Day is a celebration of freedom. But on this July Fourth, for the first time in more than a century, our freedoms in Massachusetts include the ability to legally buy, possess, and use marijuana. These privileges took effect in December, after voters approved a ballot question on...

Cheers and long lines of tourists and locals alike greeted the first day of sales of recreational marijuana on Saturday as Nevada became the fifth state with stores selling pot to the public in a market that is expected to outpace all others in the U.S. thanks to the millions of visitors who...

More than 100 people were in line at one Las Vegas-area dispensary July 1 as Nevada became the latest state in the U.S. with stores selling marijuana for recreational purposes. Kristin Deneal got in line outside the pot shop at 5:45 a.m., after a different store that opened at midnight closed...

Nevada has become the fifth state in the US with stores selling marijuana for recreational purposes. People aged 21 and above can now buy up to an ounce of the drug at a time and use it in their homes if they have a valid ID in the western state, which is famed for the hotels and casinos in...

Friday was the self-imposed deadline to come to an agreement on the marijuana bill but a final proposal has yet to come out of Conference Committee. Lawmakers are racing against the clock to get a final bill to revise Massachusetts marijuana law to Governor Charlie Baker's desk, but they'll...

Nevada has become the fifth state in the U.S. with stores selling marijuana for recreational purposes. People began buying pot early Saturday, just months after voters approved legalization in November. It's the fastest turnaround from the ballot box to retail sales in the nation. Those 21...

Recreational marijuana becomes legal to buy Saturday in Nevada, but that doesn't mean anything goes in the place where most people think anything goes. Officers say they have been preparing for months to enforce the law passed by voters in November. They will focus on keeping stoned drivers off...

I've had my share of criticisms of the current state legislature. I understood why they wanted a pay raise, didn't think it was warranted, and certainly didn't think it deserved the top priority they gave it. And I think there's big-time room for improvement in their budgeting priorities...

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Massachusetts legislators were toiling in secret Thursday to finalize a rewrite of the voter-passed marijuana legalization law, trying to iron out differences between a House version that would alter major parts of the ballot measure and a Senate bill with more modest changes. If House and...

The fate of marijuana legalization, enshrined in law by about 1.8 million Massachusetts voters, is now in the hands of a half-dozen lawmakers meeting in secret. Those legislators' first action on Monday was to kick out members of the news media, close the door, and begin their deliberations...

Medical marijuana will now be allowed on Route 1. The Peabody City Council last week approved a zoning change proposed by Mayor Ted Bettencourt Thursday to create an overlay district that encompasses four parcels on the southbound side of the highway, near Bertucci's and the ramps to I-95...

Take a black-market business that relies on cash. Move the business out of the shadows by giving it government oversight. Hire new regulators to keep watch on the business, all without any experience regulating a brand-new industry. The result can be a recipe for government corruption...

To hear some legal marijuana advocates tell it, you'd think the crime of the century was occurring at the State House, as the House of Representatives tries to rewrite the pot law approved in a statewide referendum vote last November. The argument goes like this — how dare the House tamper...

The Massachusetts House passed a sweeping rewrite of the voter-approved marijuana legalization law Wednesday night, setting up a showdown with the Senate, which is expected to greenlight a much more modest adjustment of the law Thursday. After the Senate passes its version, the two chambers will...

Take a black-market business that relies on cash. Move the business out of the shadows by giving it government oversight. Hire new regulators to keep watch on the business, all without any experience regulating a brand-new industry. The result can be a recipe for government corruption...

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You'd be hard-pressed to find an industry that's delivering a faster and more consistent growth rate than marijuana. It's also why investors have been flocking to marijuana stocks, almost blindly, over the past year. In many cases, pot stocks have doubled or tripled in value over the trailing...

Cannabis companies are turning to the world's most popular digital currency in an effort to get rid of all of that cash. The inability to access traditional financial institutions is one of the marijuana industry's biggest impediments. Legal cannabis was a $6 billion industry last year and...