This week’s Boston Courant article by David Rosen, Another Pot Shop Site Is Facing Opposition, is disheartening (but hardly surprising) to read. In 2012 MA overwhelmingly voted at the ballot to legalize marijuana for medical purposes, but since that time Beacon Hill and lobbyists working in conjunction with many neighborhood associations have done their best to make sure that not a single dispensary opens in the area.
Massachusetts citizens have overwhelmingly indicated their desire for these dispensaries to open and much to the chagrin of our current Governor who has said he will do anything he can to prevent a dispensary from opening a Suffolk / Boston Herald poll from 2014 indicates that 53% of likely voters favor legalizing marijuana for sale – similar to laws in Colorado and Washington state while only 37% of the electorate indicated they oppose it.
For the record, I would love to invite a dispensary to open here in the South End. I would certainly welcome having this here before another bank, mortgage or real estate office is permitted to open.
BosGuy 
RI’s dispensary law is ludicrous. Only former law enforcement and shit like that, I kid you not. Technically I’m former law enforcement having served for the Attorney General at one point in my career so I could stretch the point.
But I keep hearing bubbling that RI will legalize recreational soon now. But no action at all. That would mean ANYONE can grow it, cultivate it and sell it. And anyone could buy it just like they buy alcohol or cigarettes today.
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