FALL RIVER Jay says he buys high-quality pot in Fall River not to get a buzz but to help him fall asleep.
“I have horrible insomnia, and it helps me a lot,” said the 38-year-old Warwick resident, who didn’t want to reveal his last name.
Jay says he’s not eligible for a medical cannabis card in Rhode Island which is why he spends up to $200 every two months at the Northeast Alternatives dispensary on William S. Canning Boulevard off of Route 24 near the Tiverton line.
“I have no choice but to come here,” Jay said on a recent weekday afternoon, as he held a small customer bag containing both smokable weed and cannabis wax, which is a concentrated form of cannabis oil.
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With the cannabis industry s growth into a multi-billion
dollar industry, employing about 321,000 individuals, comes the
intensification of focus from unions viewing the industry as a
large growth opportunity. Much of the union organizing to
date has been led by the United Food and Commercial Workers
International Union, which launched a cannabis organizing campaign
in 2011.
Since October 2020, efforts to unionize
workers in the cannabis industry kicked into overdrive. Ten
cannabis facility workers voted to unionize in those five months
throughout the country in Rhode Island, California, DC,
All three openings took place just months after
Naperville
banned recreational marijuana sales before it became legal on Jan. 1. The city said it would put the idea up as a ballot initiative to gauge whether residents wanted it or not. A March referendum showed 53% of Naperville residents supported recreational marijuana sales. It didn t seem like there was enough support for either group to have a majority, Naperville Mayor Steve Chirico said at the time. Ultimately we agreed, hey look, let s just put this to the voters.
Chirico said there was a stigma surrounding adult-use dispensaries.