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TELL US: How Would You Feel About Having a Marijuana Dispensary in Town?
The medical marijuana ballot initiative passed last week, which means up to 35 medical marijuana dispensaries can open in 2013. Would you be OK with having one in town?
Medical marijuana is coming to Massachusetts. The question is: where?
The medical marijana ballot initiative that passed with 63 percent voter approval means that up to 35 medical marijuana dispensaries can open up in the state in 2013.
The new law goes into effect Jan. 1, but requires rules and regulations be set up by the Department of Public Health.
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Some towns and cities, such as Quincy, reportedly are already trying to line up regulations that would keep dispensaries out of their municipalities, which have proved troublesome in some of the nine states where medical marijuana dispensaries have been legal.
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