Massachusetts clears air on pot transports to islands
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The suns of good fortune are smiling down once again upon those living on Martha’s Vineyard, as Massachusetts regulators averted a cannabis drought by issuing an administrative order that will allow pot to be transported to the islands off the state for the first time, according to the Associated Press.
On Martha’s Vineyard, one dispensary temporarily closed in May after it ran out of marijuana it had been growing itself and another said it would close by September, seven years after the state legalized pot, according to the wire service.
One dispensary had filed a lawsuit against the state Cannabis Control Commission, which had restricted ocean-going transports to the island because of the federal government’s stance of it being an illegal drug.
The recent agreement that clears the way for pot deliveries to Martha’s Vineyard and also, Nantucket, comes with a caveat: all transporting of marijuana must remain within the bounds of state territorial waters.
