FRAMINGHAM Cannabis-infused ice cream will soon slide onto the shelves of a select number of marijuana shops, and a Framingham manufacturer is behind the product.
For 19 years, chef David Yusefzadeh has worked in restaurants in Chicago, Atlanta and even Hong Kong. Today he s founder and CEO of Cloud Creamery, the state s first cannabis-infused ice cream manufacturer.
The creamery operates under the “Plant Jam” brand, which Yusefzadeh, a Framingham resident and medical marijuana patient, is running with Chief Operations Officer Sean Couture and Chief Marketing Officer Kate Avruch.
They re ready to start churning out THC-infused ice cream from a kitchen at 119 Herbert St., and hope to have it on the shelves at select stores by April 20, said Yusefzadeh. (The term 420 is cannabis culture slang for marijuana and hashish consumption, and also refers to cannabis-oriented celebrations that occur on April 20.)
Cannabis Commissioner Jennifer Flanagan to resign from state marijuana board
Flanaganâs early departure adds to CCC turnover
By Colin A. Young State House News Service,Updated April 13, 2021, 12:52 p.m.
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Jennifer Flanagan speaks during a meeting of the commission in Worcester in February 2020.Steven Senne/Associated Press
Cannabis Commissioner Jennifer Flanagan, who served in the Massachusetts Legislature for almost 15 years before her appointment, will resign from the regulatory role at the end of the month, four months before her term is due to end.
When Flanagan leaves the CCC on April 30, she will be the fourth original member of the five-person commission to have left the agency in the last year. Her resignation will create a vacancy that Governor Charlie Baker will have to fill with someone who has a background in public health, mental health, substance use, or toxicology.
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Making good on a warning issued months ago, the organization that represents most of the state s marijuana retailers is suing the Cannabis Control Commission to invalidate the new regulations that create a separate category of businesses allowed to deliver non-medical marijuana directly to consumers.
The Commonwealth Dispensary Association opposed the commission s regulations while they were in development last year and last week filed suit in Suffolk Superior Court asking a judge to void the regulations. The group and its attorneys from Foley Hoag argue that the new delivery-only license types violate the state s marijuana law, which they say gives the retailers the right to deliver cannabis under their existing licenses.
The Cannabis Control Commission is being sued over new regulations that create a separate category of businesses allowed to deliver non-medical marijuana directly to consumers.