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Cultivate’s cultivation employees vote to unionize

Employees at marijuana company Cultivate’s cultivation facility in Leicester have voted to join the United Food & Commercial Workers Union, according to a Tuesday announcement.

🔒For biz owners, mask enforcement is an added stress

The coronavirus pandemic has forced Central Massachusetts business to take on new roles in preventing further spread of the disease, including enforcing mask-wearing in public and – at times – turning away would-be revenue-generating customers who don’t abide by the mandate.

🔒The future of medical marijuana, after the coronavirus spike

Over the course of the last year and a half, the medical and recreational cannabis retailers have grown into two very different yet overlapping businesses, largely coexisting and occasionally competing.

Q&A: Cultivate turns recreational cannabis sales back on

Leicester’s Cultivate was the first recreational pot shop to open in Worcester County, and among those to reopen their doors to adult-use customers on Monday.
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Medical marijuana registrations spike as recreational stores forced to close

The global coronavirus pandemic has upended significant swaths of the economy in Massachusetts and the relatively-young legal marijuana industry is no exception.

🔒Marijuana subpoenas cause a stir among Central Mass. communities

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.

Report: Grand jury exploring Uxbridge & Leicester marijuana agreements

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.

Cannabis dispensary group says Baker’s vape ban conflates legal industry with black market

A Massachusetts cannabis dispensary industry group representing dozens of cannabis firms said the legal market is getting lumped in with the illicit market.
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Cultivate purchases land in Uxbridge business park for $2M

Cultivate, one of the early players in Massachusetts’ recreational cannabis industry, has purchased land in an Uxbridge business park to build a cultivation facility to supplement they existing Leicester operations. 

As 4/20 approaches, state urges responsible recreation

Saturday will be the first April 20 with legal and accessible marijuana for sale in Massachusetts, and the state is reminding consumers to puff, dab or dose responsibly.
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