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“We appreciate action on medical deintegration … and other overdue reforms—but handing more power to big cannabis and gutting the CCC’s independence are poison pills.”

A savage ratfucking is underway, and Massachusetts cannabis business owners and consumers who may end up getting screwed have state lawmakers to thank.

Since last year, Beacon Hill legislators and other state officials have been itching to rain hell on the Cannabis Control Commission. That has included calls for an audit by Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro, who has rightfully identified innumerable agency shortcomings, as well as rambling condemnations from senators and representatives.

But now there’s confirmation that they don’t actually give a shit. Because while legislators feign concern for the commission and the companies it licenses, they are concurrently denying increased funding to the troubled agency and are now—as we just learned yesterday—considering an omnibus bill that could devastate the Massachusetts industry to benefit a few deep-pocketed out-of-state businesses.

As the State House News Service reported yesterday, “The bill adjusts the existing cap on retail licenses any one operator can hold. The current limit is three, but some business owners have said the cap prevents them from selling their businesses. Under the bill advancing towards the House, the cap on retail licenses would be raised to six, and the existing three-license caps would remain in place for cultivation and manufacturing.”

So much regulatory capture considered, it’s no surprise that “current and former cannabis regulators, business leaders, and [the advocacy group] Equitable Opportunities Now … are sounding the alarm about [the] House-backed cannabis bill that, they warn, poses an existential threat to small, local, and equity-owned businesses in Massachusetts.”

As EON explained in a media release, “The bill would more than double existing license ownership limits by allowing individuals and entities to hold up to 6 licenses outright and up to 35% ownership in an unlimited number of additional businesses, which … would pave the way for large multistate operators (MSOs) to consolidate control of the industry.”

“This bill is a gift to corporate cannabis and a death sentence for local and social equity businesses,” EON Co-Founder Shanel Lindsay said. “How is someone with one, two, or three stores supposed to compete with someone buying for six or more stores? It will undermine everything Massachusetts has worked so hard to achieve in building the most equitable cannabis industry in the country.”

The fight over license caps up until now

As we reported in April, license cap expansion was front and center at a recent hearing of the Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy. The topic dredged up lots of tension, with EON sending a letter to House Speaker Ron Mariano “on behalf of nearly 60 cannabis business owners, social equity applicants, advocates, and community leaders … express[ing] deep concern and disappointment over proposals to weaken Massachusetts’ cannabis license ownership limits—one of the most important safeguards for equitable industry participation.”

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