[June 16, 2025] A House bill that could bring broad reforms to the Massachusetts cannabis industry has cleared its first hurdle on Beacon Hill, with potential implications for pot companies and customers across the state.
The legislation would reshape the state's top cannabis regulator, drastically reduce the burdens of opening a medical marijuana company, restrict intoxicating hemp products that behave functionally like cannabis and increase the number of establishments any one cannabis company can own.
It's a laundry list of changes to the industry that may seem mostly foreign to many cannabis users. But the reforms could affect how pot is regulated in Massachusetts and the businesses that grow and sell it, with downstream reverberations for regular and casual marijuana users alike.
"The industry has changed a lot" from when Massachusetts first allowed marijuana sales, said Ryan Dominguez, executive director of the Massachusetts Cannabis Coalition, an industry trade group.
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