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Voters in Saturday's town election overwhelmingly approved a ban on retail sales of marijuana. The ban passed, 1,007 to 563. Norwell opposed legalization of recreational marijuana in November, 51 to 49 percent. At town meeting on May 8, voters approved three measures aimed at controlling...

If commercial marijuana entrepreneurs had big plans for setting up shop in Raynham, they went up in smoke at the annual Town Meeting Monday night. Selectman's Chairman Joe Pacheco said voters overwhelmingly approved changes to the town's general and zoning bylaws banning all types of...

Danvers joined a growing list of Massachusetts towns to pass a temporary moratorium on opening recreational marijuana shops. Town Meeting members voted Monday to accept the moratorium, which Danvers administrators and planners have said will give the town more time to figure out how to handle...

Just seven years ago, the town of Sedgwick, Colorado was about to give up completely. With the economy struggling and weeds growing out of abandoned gutters, the place was like a ghost town. The residents held a meeting to decide whether to incorporate their town. But then, things started to...

No recreational pot shops will be allowed in Ipswich until the planning board has figured out how they will be regulated and zoned. The moratorium lasts for a year, and a zoning proposal is likely at 2018's annual town meeting. The moratorium was recommended until state rules are in place and...

Residents voted on Monday during the annual town meeting to adopt a new general town bylaw, prohibiting all types of recreational marijuana establishments from East Bridgewater. The new restriction applies to non-medical marijuana establishments, including marijuana cultivators, testing...

Marijuana facility billed as 'state of the art' research center. Stretched out over acres on Route 125 near the Haverhill border sits an empty manufacturing plant that once was the main economic driver for North Andover, and indeed, the region. The principal owner of that site -- Jeff...

Residents of this sleepy little town in far northeast Colorado smile optimistically when talking about the turn their municipality has taken over the past few years. Town officials, local business owners and residents alike paint a picture of a wind-blown burg on the eastern plains that was...

Danvers town officials are considering a temporary ban on allowing recreational marijuana shops in town through December 2018. The moratorium would allow more time for the town to address the potential impacts of recreational marijuana in Danvers, consider the Cannabis Control Board's...

Town Meeting will begin voting on many proposed warrant articles starting on April 24, but a medical marijuana buffer zone will not be one of them. The Arlington Redevelopment Board on Monday, March 20 voted no action on the proposed warrant article, eliminating the opportunity for Town Meeting...

A tiny, broke suburb of Pittsburgh is hoping medical marijuana could provide enough green to get the town back on its feet again. You might remember Braddock as the home of last year's unconventional U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman. The struggling steel town has been in the state's Act 47...

A medical marijuana dispensary plans to open in Hanover this summer next to Friendly's on busy Route 53, allowing customers to -- if they so choose -- move quickly from a menu featuring THC-infused chocolate bars to one heavy on children's meals and ice-cream sundaes. Meanwhile in neighboring...

Gray — The Town Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to extend Gray's moratorium on marijuana retail stores and social clubs, effectively banning those establishments in Gray for at least another six months. The move extends the previous 180-day moratorium put in place by the council last...

The town will ask voters at Town Meeting to approve an 18-month moratorium on recreational marijuana sales. In the statewide election last November, voters approved a law allowing the cultivation, distribution, possession and use of marijuana for recreational purposes. On Dec. 15, it became...

For a small town trying to establish its place in Maine, recreational marijuana seems like the wrong way to go for some, but to others it's a way to make money. Charles Schaefer, a resident of Unity for 30 years, agrees with the former group so he proposed an ordinance that would ban...

Sturbridge — The Board of Selectmen is seeking to ban recreational marijuana through a zoning bylaw amendment prohibiting all types of commercial, non-medical marijuana establishments. In a 4-0 vote Monday, selectmen approved a petition for a zoning bylaw amendment that would add "Chapter 32...

Reading - The Community Development and Planning Commission (CPDC) at their meeting last week approved Town Meeting articles for the Temporary Moratorium on Marijuana Establishments and separately to prohibit marijuana establishments in Reading by prohibiting them in the Table of Zoning uses in...

West Warwick – Due to legislative changes that took effect in the state beginning this year on the regulation of medical marijuana, the council passed on a first reading an amended medical marijuana ordinance that will grandfather the town's three existing marijuana cultivation businesses into...

North Andover – A site once pitched as a major manufacturing center adjacent to a planned residential and commercial community may have a new future -- as a marijuana growing facility. Residents at Town Meeting may have a hand in determining whether this is the future of Osgood Landing...

Years ago, 1600 Osgood St. was home to Lucent Technologies (and before that, Western Electric), employing thousands and playing a vital role in the budding telecommunications industry before the plant's closure. And if Town Meeting voters consent this spring, it will soon be reborn into a...