After years of stops and starts, the Cannabis Control Commission announced Friday that eligible applicants in Massachusetts can now seek pre-certification and.
After years of stops and starts, the Cannabis Control Commission announced Friday that eligible applicants can now seek pre-certification and licensure as marijuana delivery operators, a business type that regulators and advocates said will be an important part of an equitable industry.
The new marijuana delivery operator licenses created in the new industry rules the CCC approved late last year will be available exclusively to participants in the CCC s social equity program and economic empowerment applicants for the first three years.
The new license allows its holder to buy products wholesale from growers and manufacturers and deliver them to their own customers, and requires them to follow customer verification and safety regulations.
Stung by an exodus of members since it filed suit to block new cannabis industry rules permitting home delivery, the business group that represents most of the stateâs bricks-and-mortar marijuana shops announced Monday morning that it is dropping the legal challenge.
The Commonwealth Dispensary Association and its attorneys from Foley Hoag argued in a lawsuit that the new delivery-only license types created by the Cannabis Control Commission violated the stateâs marijuana law, which they said gives the retailers the right to deliver cannabis under their existing licenses.
âSimply, the CCC overstepped its authority and disregarded state law, radically upending the established rules that hundreds of small businesses and their host communities operated in accordance with since 2016,â the CDA said in a statement when it filed its suit this month.
Facing an exodus of its members, the Commonwealth Dispensary Association is withdrawing its lawsuit against recently approved recreational marijuana delivery rules in Massachusetts.
The license which would effectively allow standalone marijuana delivery businesses with their own warehouses was part of the CCC’s ongoing, if fledgling, efforts to increase the number of local and minority-owned operators in the industry. The CCC also decided to make the delivery license, as well as a courier-style license, available only to applicants in their social equity programs for a minimum of three years meaning that almost all of the state’s existing dispensaries would be locked out from the delivery game until at least 2024.
Mass. plaintiffs drop suit over marijuana delivery rules
Colin A. Young
BOSTON Stung by an exodus of members since it filed suit to block new cannabis industry rules permitting home delivery, the business group that represents most of the state s brick-and-mortar marijuana shops announced Monday morning that it is dropping the legal challenge.
The Commonwealth Dispensary Association and its attorneys from Foley Hoag argued in a suit that the new delivery-only license types created by the Cannabis Control Commission violated the state s marijuana law, which they said gives the retailers the right to deliver cannabis under their existing licenses. Simply, the CCC overstepped its authority and disregarded state law, radically upending the established rules that hundreds of small businesses and their host communities operated in accordance with since 2016, the CDA said in a statement when it filed its suit earlier this month.