Lawmakers again weigh reforms to local marijuana agreements

Lawmakers again weigh reforms to local marijuana agreements
By Dan Adams Globe Staff,Updated May 11, 2021, 7:44 p.m.
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State Senator Patricia D. Jehlen of Somerville at a hearing of the Legislature's Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy in 2018.Pat Greenhouse
Massachusetts lawmakers on Tuesday took blistering testimony from attorneys, entrepreneurs, and advocates who slammed the state’s local approval process for marijuana companies as little more than a form of legal extortion — one they said has allowed municipalities to collect and spend millions of dollars in unjustified fees without accountability or transparency.
The virtual hearing by the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy centered on a handful of proposed bills that would reform how prospective cannabis operators and local officials negotiate so-called “host community agreements.”

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