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The town of Hingham has drafted a marijuana moratorium that will go to town meeting for voter approval. The Hingham Planning Board met Monday night and announced they will impose the marijuana moratorium that will prohibit the recreational sale of the now legal drug. Planning board chair, Judy...

Members of Boothbay Harbor's planning and select boards met Feb. 8 to discuss how Maine's legalization of recreational marijuana will affect Boothbay Harbor, and how best to proceed. Several members of both boards had attended a Jan. 25 workshop hosted by the Lincoln County Regional Planning...

Snowflake – Statecraft PLLC attorneys Kory Langhofer and Thomas Basile have filed a response in opposition to Coppertate Farms' motion requesting reimbursement of attorney's fees. In an 18-page response, accompanied by Exhibits A, B, C, D and E, Statecraft's motion asks the court to deny...

South Kingstown–As momentum to legalize recreational marijuana in Rhode Island builds, the town council held a work session Wednesday as it prepares to address zoning for medical marijuana facilities in the town. Joee Lindbeck, assistant attorney general, visited the council chambers to...

Westborough - Voters at the annual election and town meeting in March will be asked to decide whether the town should prohibit marijuana businesses that are not medical. In November, 54 percent of Massachusetts voters approved the legalization of recreational marijuana use for people 21 and...

Lakeville - The Lakeville Board of Selectmen met with a medical marijuana dispensary applicant Monday night to discuss a potential dispensary and cultivation facility in Lakeville. It was the third such meeting the board has had to date regarding medical marijuana facilities in town, all with...

Mashpee residents could face a ballot question at this spring's town election on whether to ban retailers from selling recreational marijuana in town. The Mashpee Board of Selectmen on Monday, January 23, voted unanimously to place the matter before voters. It would appear first at May Town...

Pittston town officials have postponed a special town meeting scheduled for Jan. 25 to consider a proposed moratorium on marijuana-related businesses in town. Instead, a public hearing is now scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 1 to consider an outright ban of those businesses, and a special town...

Norwell's selectmen are considering asking the May Town Meeting to impose a local, year-long moratorium on the sale of marijuana for recreational use. The board has until mid-February to make a decision, according to Town Administrator Peter Morin. Massachusetts voters approved legalizing...

Mount Desert – Selectmen here directed Town Manager Durlin Lunt to work with the town attorney to explore the possible adoption of a moratorium on commercial marijuana establishments. At the board's regular meeting on Tuesday, officials discussed the passage of Referendum Question 1 last fall...

Westborough — At the Jan. 10 Westborough Board of Selectmen meeting, the board approved placing a ballot question on the municipal town election ballot to opt out of recreational marijuana sales. It also approved the addition of Article 48 to the Town Meeting warrant which would amend the...

First off hello and thank you to everyone that makes this community what it is. About me. Live in a legal state. Married two kids my wife and I both use I work on commercial refrigeration equipment she manages a mental health office. We live in a relatively small town outside of the major...

South Kingstown – The planning board Tuesday discussed amending the town's zoning ordinance to control for the future establishment of medical marijuana-related facilities in the town. Currently, there is no language in the town's zoning ordinance to address the use of land for medical...

Searsport – Searsport voters could see a few unusual items on the town meeting warrant this year, including questions seeking funding for a town-wide revaluation and approval of a moratorium on marijuana retail businesses. Town Manager James Gillway said the last revaluation took place more...

A suggestion that the Town of Bourne can opt out, in part, to the state's newly approved law legalizing recreational use of marijuana has been warmly received by the Bourne Board of Selectmen. The board expressed no opposition to a suggestion from state Senator Viriato M. (Vinny) deMacedo...

Burlington — The Planning Board is continuing its efforts to stay ahead of the commercialization of recreational marijuana in Burlington, as they work towards finalizing the language for a temporary moratorium on such sales. The language in the moratorium is virtually finalized, and at a...

Blue Hill – Maine's recent legalization of recreational marijuana has prompted Blue Hill officials to organize a vote on whether to prohibit retail marijuana establishments. Selectmen Jim Schatz and Vaughn Leach voted at the board's regular Friday meeting to plan a special town meeting to...

Winslow – The Town Council has voted to approve the first reading for a moratorium on recreational marijuana establishments and discussed renewing the lease with Orion Ropeworks at the town's industrial building. The councilors voted Monday night to enact a moratorium because the state has...

Freeport is the latest Maine community to enact a moratorium on recreational marijuana establishments and social clubs. The Forecaster reported that the Freeport Town Council approved a six-month moratorium on Tuesday, almost a month after imposing a similar moratorium on medical marijuana...

A Boulder marijuana dispensary magnate has pulled out of a deal that, had it been approved, would have brought a retail pot shop to the Three Bears Building in downtown Basalt. Jack Pease has been in the dispensary business since 2011, when he opened a medical marijuana outlet called The Med...