A group that spearheaded legalization of recreational marijuana in Massachusetts is calling Jeff Sessions' decision to rescind a federal policy a ``regressive move.''
Massachusetts and other states who are counting on recreational marijuana sales to balance their budgets had better think again. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reportedly ready to lower the boom on states that allow commercial marijuana sales by rescinding an Obama era policy that looked the other way while some states ignored federal law that prohibits marijuana use for recreational purposes.
Wareham Police have seized a large amount of marijuana and arrested a Providence man. Here's the release from the Wareham PD:
During the afternoon of Wednesday, December 27th, the Wareham Police Department received information regarding suspicious packages described as 2 wooden crates had been received at Cape Cod Express (Wareham based shipping company)
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Massachusetts regulators have given preliminary approval to a plan that would allow pot "bars" as well as pot use at restaurants, yoga studios, movie theaters, and massage parlors.
Bail was set at $500 for a suspect charged with illegal possession of a firearm, ammunition and possession of nearly 22 grams of marijuana, five grams of cocaine and four grams of crack cocaine.
Members of the New Bedford Police Department gang and narcotics units took a gun and drugs off the street Thursday, as part of an investigation into a marijuana distribution service out of 46 Winsper Street, Apartment 3.
In his weekly appearance on WBSM, New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell addresses the search for a new Superintendent of Schools, the land purchase in the Industrial Park for a medical marijuana cultivation facility, and the recently closed 7-Eleven store.