Dispensaries sue Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission over new delivery license regulations
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
This article first appeared on the Boston Business Journal’s
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Marijuana dispensaries are suing the state board that oversees the industry over its new regulations that only allow members of certain disenfranchised groups to deliver cannabis products for the first three years, saying that stipulation violates state law.
The regulations, approved by the Cannabis Control Commission in November, created two different license types for recreational cannabis delivery. One allows delivery companies to purchase product wholesale and to warehouse the product. A second license type offers a courier model that allows individuals to partner with recreational marijuana shops to deliver recreational marijuana, known as a marijuana courier license.
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By State House News Service
Making good on a warning issued months ago, the organization that represents most of the state s marijuana retailers is suing the Cannabis Control Commission to invalidate the new regulations that create a separate category of businesses allowed to deliver non-medical marijuana directly to consumers.
The Commonwealth Dispensary Association opposed the commission s regulations while they were in development last year and last week filed suit in Suffolk Superior Court asking a judge to void the regulations. The group and its attorneys from Foley Hoag argue that the new delivery-only license types violate the state s marijuana law, which they say gives the retailers the right to deliver cannabis under their existing licenses.