Friday, January 31, 2014

Massachusetts licenses its first medical marijuana dispensaries

A home-grown marijuana plant is seen at an undisclosed location in Israel By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts has licensed 20 dispensaries to start growing and selling marijuana for medical use, the Department of Health said on Friday in the latest U.S. step to boost access to the widely outlawed drug. Massachusetts is among 20 states in the country that have passed laws allowing people to use marijuana as a medical treatment. Most of those states, like Massachusetts, are still setting up distribution networks. State regulators received 100 applications to open dispensaries under a 2012 medical marijuana law, and were permitted to give out as many as 35 licenses.








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