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ARTICLE · 08 NOVEMBER 2022

Adult-Use Cannabis Licensing (MA)

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The practice note provides background on adult-use cannabis in Massachusetts and offers detailed, step-by-step information on the process for seeking one or more adult- use licenses from the state cannabis agency.

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Robert J. Munnelly, Jr.
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This practice note provides background on adult-use cannabis in Massachusetts and offers detailed, step-by-step information on the process for seeking one or more adult-use licenses from the state cannabis agency.

The Start of Adult-Use Cannabis in Massachusetts

Massachusetts took its first steps to develop a legal cannabis industry in 2012 by becoming one of the first states in the Eastern United States to enact legislation enabling state-legal medical-use cannabis for qualifying patients, personal caregivers, and registered medical dispensaries (RMD). See The Act for the Humanitarian Medical Use of Marijuana (effective on January 1, 2013), later codified into statute as Mass. Ann. Laws ch. 94I.

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