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Mass. marijuana retailers file suit to void delivery rules

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 ar...

The Cannabis Control Commission is being sued over new regulations that create a separate category of businesses allowed to deliver non-medical marijuana directly to consumers.

Freshly restocked with three new members, the Cannabis Control Commission is gearing up for a year that will include the implementation of recently-approved regulations that allow for home delivery of non-medical marijuana, continuing to press for legislation that Beacon Hill mostly ignored last session, and possibly even another round of regulatory revisions.

“I’m incredibly excited about bringing new blood, new perspective, new energy, new ideas into the commission,” Hoffman said.