Baker: CCC approach on recreational rollout was 'right one'
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Gov. Charlie Baker
Adults in Massachusetts have now been able to legally buy marijuana for two weeks, and the path regulators forged to get to that point was the correct one, according to Gov. Charlie Baker.
Asked Monday for his reaction to the rollout of of non-medical marijuana sales, which began Nov. 20 at dispensaries in Northampton and Leicester, Baker said the Cannabis Control Commission pursued a "thoughtful, measured and deliberate approach."
"The one message I heard over and over again from folks in Washington and Colorado was you only get one shot at this when you roll it out, and anything that may not go quite the way you hope it would go when you roll it out, you're not going to have a chance to get a mulligan and play it over again differently, so I think the approach the commission took was the right one," Baker told reporters.
Massachusetts followed states like Washington and Colorado in legalizing, taxing and regulating the adult use and sale of marijuana through the passage of a 2016 ballot question, which Baker had opposed.
The Cannabis Control Commission, a five-member panel whose members were chosen by Baker, Treasurer Deb Goldberg and Attorney General Maura Healey, initially had eyed a target date of July 1 for sales to begin. Commissioners had said in the months since that they were prioritizing launching the industry correctly rather than conforming to a specific time frame.
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