Uxbridge

In an interview on the WBJ Podcast, the co-founders of Uxbridge cannabis startup Blackstone Valley Naturals said the key to surviving Massachusetts' long and expensive regulatory process is to stay as lean as possible.

After meeting in the Colorado marijuana industry, Kevin MacConnell & Tim Phillips set out to start an Uxbridge cannabis company, creating custom marijuana products for dispensaries.

A retail building with a Dunkin' and a Shell gas station on Lackey Dam Road in Uxbridge has sold for $1.85 million.

Former Uxbridge town accountant Justin Cole, 38, of Harvard was indicted by a statewide grand jury for allegedly stealing more than $729,000 from Uxbridge, Millville and a Western Massachusetts town, Attorney General Maura Healey announced on Tuesday. 

The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission gave Blackstone Valley Naturals of Uxbridge, doing business as Yamna, the final greenlight to commence operations as soon as Friday, the commission announced on Monday.

A&J Industries, an engineering and manufacturing company, has sold its Uxbridge facility for $2 million.

Of all the people with associations to marijuana, only one person may come close to Cheech & Chong: Snoop Dogg. The rapper-turned-cannabis entrepreneur will stop by Caroline's Cannabis, a pot shop in Uxbridge, from 4 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday for a meet-and-greet.

Buildings hosting the Uxbridge House of Pizza, a Subway and others in Uxbridge center have sold for nearly $1.6 million.

When they looked in their email a few weeks ago and found subpoenas from U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling's office looking into their relationships with marijuana businesses, leaders in communities across Central Massachusetts, and the rest of the state, were surprised.

A federal grand jury is looking into the mandatory agreements and payments between host communities and marijuana businesses, according to a report in the Boston Globe.