Marijuana

A former Massachusetts marijuana company was hit with a hefty fine in the wake of the death of a woman who worked at one of its facilities. Lorna McMurrey, 27, worked at Trulieve’s Holyoke facility. The NBC10 Investigators first told you about this tragic case in 2022. McMurrey was having trouble breathing and collapsed on the job while working with…

While marijuana is legal across Massachusetts, logistical questions have Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in a cloud of uncertainty. Geoff Rose owns Island Time on Martha’s Vineyard. His dispensary serves both medical and recreational needs. But instead of a consistent flow of customers, Rose has been turning people away after the lone cultivator on the island closed its doors. “The...

Millions of people in the U.S. report using marijuana daily or nearly every day, and those people now outnumber those who say they are daily or nearly-daily drinkers of alcohol.

A proposed rule sent to the federal register recognizes the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledges it has less potential for abuse than some of the nation’s most dangerous drugs.

For the second time in two months, a woman was arrested with about 70 lbs. of marijuana at Boston’s Logan International Airport before a flight to the United Kingdom, prosecutors said Tuesday. Fareedat Folunsho, a 19-year-old from London, was arrested Sunday night as she was attempting to fly back to the nation, according to the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office....

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed to shift marijuana from a “Schedule I” drug, which includes heroin and LSD, to a less tightly regulated “Schedule III” drug

There’s a new federal push to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating international criminal organizations that are operating illegal marijuana grows in about 20 states, including Maine.

Checks long promised to entrepreneurs in the Massachusetts marijuana industry are finally getting delivered.

Marijuana sales have seen a huge increase locally and nationally, thanks in part to the unofficial high holiday 4/20. Ture Turnbull from Tree House Craft Cannabis joined us to talk about the business and how it’s trying to put a focus on recycling.

Gov. Maura Healey has officially pardoned tens of thousands of people convicted in Massachusetts for simple possession of marijuana. The governor’s council unanimously approved the pardons Wednesday, Healey announced. “Massachusetts made history today. I’m grateful to the Governor’s Council for their due diligence in approving my request to pardon all state misdemeanor marijuana possession convictions,” Healey said in a...

Massachusetts prosecutors say a Michigan woman tried to take an international flight from Boston with 74 pounds of marijuana. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office says 28-year-old Nalexus Palmer of Clinton Township was arrested Saturday night at Logan International Airport. She was allegedly trying to transport hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of cannabis on a flight to London....

Marijuana is fully legal in 24 states and Washington, D.C. Another 17 states have legalized its use solely for medical purposes, with varying caveats in each states’ laws.

As support for legalizing marijuana rises across the country, there’s new information about testing for THC in drivers, which is proving there’s more research that needs to be done.

Two of the elected officials who would vote on Gov. Maura Healey’s plan to pardon convictions for simple cannabis possession expressed their support Tuesday, a day before the governor is set to provide details of her proposal at a State House news conference. Healey, the state’s former top prosecutor who once joined Gov. Charlie Baker in opposing the legalization...

The long-awaited and often-debated meeting between Massachusetts State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg and suspended Cannabis Control Commission Chairwoman Shannon O’Brien, a meeting that could lead to O’Brien’s firing, is being penciled in for April 10 and 11. Goldberg’s office said it proposed the Wednesday and Thursday dates next month for the meeting. A spokesman for O’Brien said those are the...

A request from one marijuana store to be allowed to also sell Massachusetts Lottery tickets has sparked a broad conversation at the Cannabis Control Commission about where to draw the line on the sale of non-cannabis products as the legal marijuana industry matures to include establishments beyond standard retailers. State law and the CCC’s regulations neither explicitly allow nor...

Fitchburg, Massachusetts, a relatively small city in Worcester County, has transformed itself into a mega town for marijuana. Converting an old wire-making factory into a cannabis cultivation operation, Garden Remedies was the first to move to Fitchburg in 2016.  Since then, six other companies have created similar set ups within the city’s limits and six others are in the...

A group of Democratic senators is calling for the president to remove marijuana from a list of federally criminalized drugs defined by the Controlled Substances Act, according to a news release from Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office. The Massachusetts Democrat and Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., spearheaded the initiative, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, both of Vermont’s...