Facing a lawsuit and pressure to ensure residents have access to medical marijuana, the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission on Thursday issued an administrative order to allow deliveries of regulated marijuana to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket by boat.
Cannabis retailers on the two islands, both popular summer tourism destinations south of Cape Cod, filed a lawsuit last month against the CCC.
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“What that administrative order does is it permits the transportation of cannabis in territorial waters, so there’s a certain body of water where it will be permitted,” CCC Acting Chair Ava Callender Concepcion said Thursday after the group’s meeting, adding that the order would effectively bring the lawsuit to an end.
Callender Concepcion said CCC had reached out to “a number of
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