Medical marijuana sales temporarily approved
A medical marijuana dispensary in Salem will be able to begin selling its product after meeting final inspection protocols, under a one-time, three-month waiver approved Friday by Gov. Charlie Baker.
The governor's office announced last week that Alternative Therapy Group of Salem requested the temporary waiver "because labs in Massachusetts are not yet able to complete the array of quality testing required by Department of Public Health protocols."
Under the waiver, medical marijuana may be distributed with a label disclosing that the product was not tested for chemicals - the Baker administration says that in the case of the first batch of marijuana submitted for testing by ATG "the lab was unable to test for 7 of the 18 mandated pesticides, which would make it unable to be sold under state regulations."
"Patients have waited to access marijuana for medical purposes for far too long," Baker said in a statement. "This waiver will allow industry laboratories a little more time to reach full operation while providing safe amounts of medical marijuana for qualifying patients who need it."
Under the waiver, ATG is limited to dispensing a maximum of 4.23 ounces of marijuana to any qualifying patient for their 60-day supply "and must provide patients with instructions to consume no more than 2 grams per day."
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