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Department of Public Health Application Overview Has Arrived

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has posted new regulations beginning June 29th, 2015 for non-profit organizations applying for a Certificate of Registration to open a Registered Marijuana Dispensary in Massachusetts. Rounding the...

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Schedule 1 Ruling in Federal Court Delayed

US Attorney Greg Broderick and defense attorney Zenia Gilg argue in front of Judge Kimberly Mueller. Drawing by Ron Mullins of Sacramento NORML. by Jeremy Daw Judge Kimberly Mueller, the...

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Listing Concerns re Medical Marijuana Regulations

by Ellen Brown, Sinsemilla Seminars (edited by Kathryn Rifkin) How do you feel about the Massachusetts medical marijuana program? What are your concerns? Here are some that I’ve heard. 1. Massachusetts...

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Judge Ireland Schools the Police

Two paragraphs were hidden away in this story Malden Council Makes Marijuana Use Punishable by Arrest, like charms in a Christmas pudding. The bulk of the article reports on Malden’s...

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April 29 – One Hundredth Anniversary of first Mass. law interfering with commerce in cannabis

April 29, 2011, marks the one hundredth anniversary of Massachusetts’ first law (see below) interfering with free commerce in Cannabis intended for human consumption. It was the first state law concerning...

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Commonwealth v. Benjamin Cruz – A monumental decision

Police cannot search people or places based solely upon the odor of burnt marijuana. At 10:00 AM on Patriots’ Day 2011, the Supreme Judicial Court issued its decision in Commonwealth...

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ROCKLAND $300

ROCKLAND ARTICLE #45 The town voted to amend this by-law by striking out “criminal indictment or complaint pursuant to G.L. c.40 s. 21.or ” and voted to adopt article 45...

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Bellingham STM October 14

Bellingham’s Special Town Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 14 at 7:30 PM in the High School.  This appears to be unnecessary as Bellingham’s Annual Town Meeting approved a bylaw...

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COMMONWEALTH vs. BENJAMIN CRUZ, 459 Mass. 459 (2011)

  Present: IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.   Controlled Substances. Practice, Criminal, Motion to suppress. Search and Seizure, Threshold police inquiry, Probable cause, Automobile. Constitutional Law, Search...