“We’ve been talking about the two-driver rule since 2020. Now that we’ve gotten to the finish line of implementing, there are people who feel left out.”
By Bhaamati Borkhetaria, CommonWealth Beacon
The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission held a public hearing Monday on long-awaited regulations that the agency hopes to approve later this month, a week before a legislative oversight hearing is scheduled.
The public hearing focused on a whole suite of regulatory changes—the most popular one being the removal of the two-driver rule, which requires all deliveries of cannabis to be handled by teams of two people for security reasons. The rule has angered industry officials, who say it is unnecessary and costly.
The commission voted back in December 2023 to modify the two-driver rule—requiring one driver for delivery vehicles carrying less than $5,000 of product and two drivers for vehicles between $5,000 and the maximum $10,000—but the implementation has taken just short of a year.
“We’ve been talking about the two-driver rule since 2020,” said Ryan Dominguez, the head of the Massachusetts Cannabis Coalition at the public hearing. “Now that we’ve gotten to the finish line of implementing, there are people who feel left out. Those licensees are asking
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