After Massachusetts’ governor recently signed sweeping legislation focused on promoting diversity and equity in the state’s $2 billion marijuana industry, Ava Callender Concepcion of the Cannabis Control Commission told reporters she was “shaking with relief and happiness.”
The marijuana-focused law covers a broad range of issues, from creating a Social Equity Trust Fund to help entrepreneurs raise capital to keeping a lid on the controversial fees levied by municipalities on local cannabis businesses.
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The reform package also allows municipalities to pass bylaws or to vote on whether to allow cannabis consumption lounges as well as permitting businesses to open such venues in localities previously approved through a pilot program.
“This is the most comprehensive piece of legislation on cannabis since the establishment of the Cannabis Control Commission,” Concepcion said.
But some of the state’s industry executives argue that the new law could have gone further in providing business
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