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These are the must-stop legal weed shops across the state Massachusetts residents voted to legalize medical cannabis in 2012, and then adult-use in 2016. The recreational market opened in 2018 with the East Coast’s first legal dispensaries, and the market has grown rapidly since. But finding the best dispensaries in the state’s maturing market can […]

Get ready to be stoked. California’s got more than 800 cannabis dispensaries carrying the best weed the world’s ever seen—purer and often cheaper than the illicit market. And here’s the crazy part—California shops have yet to even really blossom. Due to the state’s “home rule” policy, which allows local governments to forbid legal cannabis businesses, […]

New Jersey gets its nickname, the Garden State, from a long history of agricultural advertisements enticing farmers to settle and plant their crops. Today, New Jersey has a different kind of garden growing since medical dispensaries opened across the state in 2021 and expanded into adult-use in 2022. The state’s stance on cannabis legalization has […]

Planning on swinging through the Midwest? Illinois has become a go-to legal destination for cannabis enthusiasts. The Land of Lincoln has become one of the fastest rising markets for cannabis since its legalization, tallying $1 billion in sales in its first year operating under its new laws. By the conclusion of 2022, Illinois is expected […]

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Germany makes moves to medicalize it.

For the last five years, Missouri has been transforming into the gateway to cannabis in the Midwest. Since medical marijuana dispensaries opened in 2020, Missouri’s medical marijuana scene rapidly expanded to include recreational sales just a couple years later, in 2022. Today, there are over 200 dispensaries in Missouri, many of which operate as both […]

A perspective from Boston University law professor Jay Wexler—a former law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the United States Supreme Court, and the author of the new Weed Rules: Blazing the Way to a Just and Joyful Marijuana Policy. It’s a Tuesday night in Boston. I’ve finished my work for the day, so […]

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