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🔒Cannabis comes of age: Five years in, regulators face a new set of issues

When the first recreational cannabis dispensaries in Massachusetts opened in November 2018, their parking lots assumed a festive air as people lined up, sometimes for hours, to get the newly legal product. Nearly five years later, legal cannabis has become an unremarkable part of the state economy.

🔒Retail is king: How small cannabis businesses are surviving the plunging marijuana prices

Smaller cannabis companies are white labeling and collaborating as they try to survive a fierce pricing competition against large corporations in an increasingly saturated market.

🔒Artificial intelligence: The new era of electronic health records

Artificial intelligence offers ways to improve the burdensome electronic health records process, but a leading Westborough company urges caution amid innovation.

🔒Real Estate Insider: As the State seeks to increase housing construction, some towns pump the brakes

Multifamily residential developers have been proposing thousands of apartments throughout Central Massachusetts, but communities are resisting the push for more housing to protect their resources and what residents and officials see as their town’s character.
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🔒From the Editor: A cannabis future without stigma

Dispensaries would be as common as liquor stores, discussion around cannabis use would be as tolerated as drinking wine, and cannabis cafes would dot the landscape as bars do now.

🔒Q&A: The Great Exchange in Devens finds new use for businesses’ discards

The Devens Eco-Efficiency Center is a nonprofit providing programs to help companies make more efficient choices, such as by creating The Great Exchange, a marketplace for the reuse of materials destined for the trash.

🔒A Thousand Words: Mass. GDP growth slowing

Growth of the Massachusetts GDP is slowing, causing anxiety across industries.

🔒Editorial: A rocky road toward a green economy

With no magic bullet on the horizon, achieving the Massachusetts clean energy objectives will require a multi-pronged approach, with a blend of carrots and sticks to massively accelerate the rate of change.
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🔒Viewpoint: The benefits of a four-day workweek

Our U.S. work environment desperately needs a makeover. Although there is no magic pill, one potential solution is a four-day workweek.

🔒101: Motivating underperformers

Underperforming employees don’t just cost companies time and money, they demoralize other employees, potentially impacting retention.
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