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“Pot Cafes” and “Weed Delivery Vans” Make Headway In Massachusetts

Bill Gnade

A subcommittee of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission met Wednesday in Boston and is "inching closer" to licensing so-called "cannabis cafes" and home delivery of marijuana, according to an Associated Press report in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

The Public Safety and Community Mitigation Subcommittee's recommendations follow from the Cannabis Control Commission's "Equity Programs," found on the commission's web site, which seek to "redress the historic harm done" to people living in communities of disproportionate impact, "particularly Blacks and Latinos," who have been adversely affected by "state and federal policy."

Trump Emerges As Promise-Keeper President
Commentary

Trump Emerges As Promise-Keeper President

Ira Stoll

Donald Trump just may be our most honest president since Abraham Lincoln.

Sure, the Washington Post's valiant if pedantic fact-checkers claim that "In 710 days, President Trump has made 7,645 false or misleading claims." The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler even introduced a new rating for the Trump era, the "bottomless Pinocchio," for a false claim repeated over and over again. The competing fact-checkers over at Politifact have five long pages of what they term "pants on fire!" statements from Trump. Trump "has a well-documented problem telling the truth," The New York Times insists.

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