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Three constitutional officers who each opposed marijuana legalization are now defending the newly-legal pot industry and pushing back against U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling, whose statements have sewn anxiety and uncertainty in the fledgling industry.

With the Attorney General of the United States rescinding the Obama-era "hands off" approach to marijuana, Mayor Jon Mitchell says New Bedford won't alter its plans to allow the industry in the city.

Senator Liz Warren should lead the fight for legal marijuana

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.

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.

For the record, marijuana is prohibited on college campuses in all 50 states as it is still illegal under federal law.

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON — The Legislature sent its rewrite of the voter-approved legal marijuana bill, with a higher tax rate and less power for voters, to the governor on Thursday, 255 days after about 1.8 million voters put the law on the books...

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON — Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, set to play a key role in the rollout of a legal marijuana industry in Massachusetts, said Tuesday she has "no idea" whether legal pot shops will be open by next July, as envisioned by policymakers...

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON — Almost three weeks later than they had hoped, lawmakers on Monday struck an accord on marijuana policy that would tax retail pot sales at a maximum rate of 20 percent and paves the way for those sales to begin in just under a year...

Advocates for greater diversity in the legal cannabis industry are speaking out against a proposal to revamp the state's voter-approved recreational marijuana law. In a statement Tuesday, the group Equitable Opportunities NOW! said it was "profoundly troubled'' by the House version of the bill, which is scheduled for debate on Wednesday...