The first recreational pot shop in western Mass NETA opened its doors one year ago today in Northampton.
First recreational pot shop in WMass opened one-year ago today in Northampton Nov 20, 2019
“With 34 recreational pot shops now open across the state, the Cannabis Control Commissions have tallied more than $300 million in gross sales this year.”
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After 1 Year, Mass. Weed Stores Undersupplied, Still Competing With Black Market **
Nov 19, 2019 “Demand is so great that Insa [dispensary Easthampton,MA.]doubled its cultivation capacity in August, and now it’s doubling it again.+ The demand for testing...has been crazy'Gallagher said the supply is also stymied by a bottleneck during required testing. There are only two licensed testing labs in the state. _ _ demand for testing went from 15 to 20 samples a day under the medical program, to 4,000 a month after adult-use started.++ In most industries, a supply shortage would lead to price increases. In the case of legal pot, prices have stayed pretty much the same since the first retailers opened a year ago — mostly about $300 to $400 an ounce, plus taxes.Unlike other industries, though, the stores are competing with an illegal market where prices are lower — between about $150 and $280 an ounce.“
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It’s been a year since Mass. started selling recreational marijuana. Some frustrations remain November 20, 2019
“Legalized cannabis has also created jobs, employing more than 6,700 Massachusetts residents so far.” + Authorities here have had less success steering consumers away from the illicit market. This year, 77 percent of marijuana sales in Massachusetts occurred under the table, according to cannabis research firm BDS Analytics, compared to 58 percent after a year of recreational sales in Colorado, when 322 stores were licensed.“
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36 Comments “ Maybe one of these years the city of Boston will get a weed store.”--> **More than half of the stores are in Worcester County and west.”
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4 Comments “Remarkable, isn't it? Every one of these bureaucrats thinks they're doing a fantastic job and not one single marijuana business selling to the public has opened in Boston or Cambridge or most suburbs where the majority of the state's population lives.”
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99 Comments “The members of this corrupt State government are still working out the details on how they and their friends can get in on the most lucrative parts of this new business. Once the corruption bribes and hierarchies are established we'll see the proliferation of retail shops and hot house growth areas. Also the price trend will be very high so to speak so we the consumer will empty our pockets to their Cartels.They will now openly control the trade when in the past they ran it covertly.”
