{"id":9509,"date":"2022-04-09T19:02:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T19:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2022\/04\/09\/massachusetts-senate-passes-sweeping-pot-reform-bill\/135643\/"},"modified":"2022-04-09T19:02:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T19:02:07","slug":"massachusetts-senate-passes-sweeping-pot-reform-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/massachusetts-senate-passes-sweeping-pot-reform-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Senate passes sweeping pot reform bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/massachusetts-senate-passes-sweeping-pot-reform-bill\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/California_Marijuana_01900-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/massachusetts-senate-passes-sweeping-pot-reform-bill.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/massachusetts-senate-passes-sweeping-pot-reform-bill-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-yarpp-template-inarticle-right\">\n<aside class=\"article-related right\">\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>The state Senate passed a sweeping cannabis bill that aims to clarify some terms of a ballot initiative first passed by voters in 2016, while promoting equity in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, many barriers continue to prevent those historically harmed by marijuana prohibition from entering the industry,\u201d said Senate President Karen Spilka, D-Ashland, adding that \u201cguardrails\u201d are now in place for the \u201cHost Community Agreement process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill, championed in part by state senator and gubernatorial candidate Sonia Chang-D\u00edaz, would make several updates to the state\u2019s existing cannabis laws, including a first-in-the-nation social equity program for cannabis entrepreneurs. Currently, only about 7% of cannabis businesses are considered \u201csocial equity\u201d businesses, according to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2022\/04\/09\/massachusetts-senate-passes-sweeping-cannabis-reform-bill\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles The state Senate passed a sweeping cannabis bill that aims to clarify some terms of a ballot initiative first passed by voters in 2016, while promoting equity in the industry. \u201cUnfortunately, many barriers continue to prevent those historically harmed by marijuana prohibition from entering the industry,\u201d said Senate President Karen Spilka, D-Ashland, adding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8244,8245,528,8232,8405,9,441,1407,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8246,8247,3102,8234,8406,3015,3976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}