Thursday, March 14, 2013
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley issued a decision today on medical marijuana by-laws, allowing those that regulate the centers, including their location.
Swampscott officials were awaiting today's announcement by the Massachusetts attorney general on by-laws prohibiting medical marijuana dispensaries in Massachusetts towns including Wakefield. They learned that towns can not prohibit the dispensaries. But they also learned that towns can regulate their location. In 2012 Massachusetts became the 18th state to legalize medical marijuana. Patients with HIV, multiple sclerosis, hepatitis C, or other conditions can obtain a card from the state allowing them to purchase the drug. The law allows up to 35 nonprofit dispensaries in the state, and there must be at least one in each county, Swampscott Town Administrator Tom Younger said earlier. Younger was one of four Swampscott officials who …
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Swampscott officials attended a workshop last week on the medical marijuana law.
Town officials will be watching two regulatory items related to towns and medical marijuana dispensaries. The items are the attorney general's review of by-laws prohibiting the dispensaries in several Massachusetts towns including Wakefield and Reading, said Swampscott Town Administrator Tom Younger. The other item is the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's establishment of regulations governing the dispensaries. The department has until the end of April to establish the rules. Younger was one of four Swampscott officials at the Local Government and Medical Marijuana workshop at the Massachusetts Municipal Association's annual meeting last week. He was joined by town Planner Pete Kane and Selectmen Barry Greenfield and Glenn …
Friday, November 9, 2012
The medical marijuana ballot initiative passed on Tuesday, which means up to 35 medical marijuana dispensaries can open in 2013. Would you be OK with having one in town?
Medical marijuana is coming to Massachusetts. The question is: where? The medical marijana ballot initiative that passed in Tuesdays election with 63 percent voter approval means that up to 35 medical marijuana dispensaries can open up in the state in 2013. The new law goes into effect January 1, but requires rules and regulations be set up by the Department of Public Health. Some towns and cities, such as Quincy, reportedly are already trying to line up regulations that would keep dispensaries out of their municipalities, which have proved troublesome in some of the nine states where medical marijuana dispensaries have been legal. What do you think? Is this a classic case of NIMBY (fine, but Not In My Back Yard)? Or do medical marijuana…
Friday, September 14, 2012
Question 3 on the Nov. ballot will ask about legalizing medical marijuana.
This November voters will be able to cast a vote for or against legalizing medical marijuana in the Commonwealth. According to WBUR, proponents have formed the Committee For Compassionate Medicine (Subtitle: ‘Yes’ for Massachusetts Patients). The opponents are at MaVoteNoOnQuestion3.com. Question 3 on the ballot reads: “A yes vote would enact the proposed law eliminating state criminal and civil penalties related to the medical use of marijuana, allowing patients meeting certain conditions to obtain marijuana produced and distributed by new state-regulated centers, or, in specific hardship cases, to grow marijuana for their own use.” So we want to know: Are you for or against bring medical marijuana to the state?
JSnr
11:12 am on Friday, March 22, 2013
Speaking of pushing, look at what is happening in Colorado: ..."Spike in children using marijuana" http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/03/06/drug-testing-company-sees-spike-in-children-using-marijuana/ 74% of children in a Denver youth substance abuse treatment program report getting their pot from a "medical" marijuana cardholder an average of 50 times. (-- Journal of Child Psychiatry, June 2012, … more ›