Medical Marijuana Law Delay Possible
Selectmen will discuss this tonight.
A potential delay in the state implementing the new medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivation law is on tonight's Westborough selectmen agenda. The board meets at 6 p.m. at Westborough Town Hall. Voters approved the new law at the Nov. 6 statewide election. Westborough residents supported the measure, Question 3 on the ballot, 5,367 to 3,347. The law allows the state Department of Public Health to authorize “no more than 35 treatment centers” in 2013, according to the ballot question. The Massachusetts Municipal Association recently sent a letter to House Speaker Robert DeLeo, Senate President Therese Murray and Gov. Deval Patrick “recommending a delay of implementation of a minimum of six months, up to a year to allow DPH adequate …
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Malcolm Kyle
7:55 am on Monday, December 17, 2012
Prohibitionists literally don't give a damn about the welfare of individual citizens. That's you, me and everyone you care about. They don't care even when their policy means destroying the whole economy or bank-rolling criminals and terrorists. The prohibitionist onslaught appears to be simply a war directed at all of us. America it is time to wake up. Prohibition is a cultural and economic … more ›