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Warren eyes legal pot retail sales as a way to curb opiate abuse

WASHINGTON – Elizabeth Warren tentatively weighed in on the debate over legalizing marijuana, asking the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the effects of legal access to pot on the rate of deaths from heroin and opioid drug overdoses. The Bay State's senior U.S. Senator

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Demonstrators protest lobbyist’s work against legalizing pot

BOSTON — As a medical marijuana dispensary opened its doors in Lowell Tuesday morning, demonstrators who support a move to make sales of the drug legal for recreational use gathered nearby to call on the company that owns the shop to break ties with a lobbyist opposing their campaign. Patriot Care,

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Pot states look at easing cross-border investment

DENVER (AP) — States that have legalized pot are taking a fresh look at making it easier for out-of-state investors to get in the weed business, saying the industry's ongoing difficulty in banking means they need new options to finance expansion. The four states that allow recreational pot sales

Massachusetts

Senator: Legal marijuana would create many challenges

STATE HOUSE — Highly potent edible forms of marijuana make up nearly half the legalized market in Colorado and have had dangerous consequences for adults and children, according to a Massachusetts senator who returned last week from a research trip. Back from what he called an "eye-opening trip," Sen.

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Mass. lawmakers take fact-finding pot-shop tour in Denver

DENVER – A group of Massachusetts lawmakers returned Thursday from what state Sen. Jason Lewis (D-Winchester) described as a marijuana "fact-finding" trip to Colorado, where voters legalized pot in 2012. The three-day visit came after a proposal to make the drug legal in Massachusetts moved closer to the November

Massachusetts

Pot legalization backers remind lawmakers clock is ticking

STATE HOUSE — Buoyed by recent wins at the ballot box and confidence that voters will approve yet another major law in November, marijuana activists on Wednesday told lawmakers that their opportunity to craft legislation to legalize marijuana on their own terms is now. "The issue facing lawmakers today is

Massachusetts

Galvin sends seven ballot proposals to lawmakers

BOSTON – Secretary of State Bill Galvin said seven initiative petition campaigns submitted enough certified voter signatures to meet the requirement for consideration by lawmakers and that he will send the proposals to the Legislature for consideration during the session that starts in January, moving the initiatives one step closer to

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‘Millionaire tax’ and pot legalization sponsors file signatures, point to revenue potential

BOSTON – Massachusetts voters may soon get a chance to decide whether to raise state revenue by taxing the rich, legalizing and taxing marijuana, or both. Supporters of two ballot initiatives, one that would impose a state "millionaire tax" and one that would legalize recreational use of marijuana, both