420 with CNW – Massachusetts Consumers Buy Legal Marijuana Worth 3 Million in First Year

It has been a year since Massachusetts started selling recreational marijuana, and although the state was not in a hurry to speed up the matter, the public was interested as they rushed to the retail stores immediately after the sale began. It took long to legalize adult-use marijuana in the state, but in November of 2016, the citizens legalized recreational cannabis through the ballot. In 2017, Massachusetts governor, Charlie Baker, signed legislation that changed the rules governing weed, pushing the sales of recreational marijuana back by six months. After overcoming several other hiccups, the Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) passed the most significant regulations in March of 2018. The state only had four retail outlets licensed to sell marijuana by October 2018, and only two were operable during the launch of marijuana sales. In 2017, the Department of Revenue in Massachusetts estimated that for the 2019 fiscal year, the state would be able to collect marijuana tax revenue ranging between $44 million and $82 million. The DOR made the estimates hoping the state would be having a reasonable number of retail marijuana outlets, which didn’t happen on the first day of legal sales. However, the program started well since, in the…

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