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The newly appointed board that will regulate marijuana in Massachusetts met publicly for the first time Tuesday, more than 10 months after voters voted to legalize recreational cannabis.

The race is on to assemble the five-member board that will oversee recreational and medical marijuana in Massachusetts.

A top Senate Republican and some outside lawyers worry a key provision in the measure could be unconstitutional.

Lawmakers also compromised on the dispute over local control of cannabis shops.

Who let the skunks out? Suddenly the scent of cannabis is all over the city. Here’s how to handle it, Beantown.

Talks between the House and Senate over a compromise marijuana law appeared stalled Friday, even as lawmakers faced a self-imposed deadline for delivering a bill to Republican Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk.

After a week of sharp divisions over the future of the state’s adult-use cannabis law, it’s now up to a committee of six lawmakers to sort everything out.

The Senate passed a bill Thursday calling for revisions to the voter-approved adult-use cannabis law, setting the stage for negotiations with the House.

The debate over Massachusetts’ recreational marijuana law took a new twist on Friday with the release of a plan that would not raise taxes on cannabis.

Backers of legal cannabis urged Massachusetts legislators to hold off, at least for now, on making any changes to a law voters approved in November.