A group of marijuana companies in Massachusetts this month are supporting the Last Prisoner Project, a nonprofit organization working to bring restorative justice to the cannabis industry. Green Thumb Industries, a national cannabis consumer packaged goods company and the owner of the Rise and Essence retail stores, has partnered with Last Prisoner Project on an integrated marketing campaign, including a …

Boston, MA – Last week, Massachusett’s Cannabis Control Commission gave final licensure to the State’s first independent marijuana store – to be owned by Caroline Frankel. Frankel is going to name her marijuana shop Caroline’s Cannabis and the store will be located in Uxbridge. So far, the nine retail stores that are open in Massachusetts have been reported to be …

UXBRIDGE, Mass. — The first mom and pop marijuana shop in the state has gotten its final license and is set to open in Uxbridge. Caroline’s Cannabis will be owned by a stay-at-home mom who’s hoping to open her doors the first week of March. It’ll also be the first female-owned business to get a license. The store takes its …

UXBRIDGE — Caroline’s Cannabis, a country-inspired craft cannabis boutique at 640 Douglas St. (Route 16), is the first woman-owned small business and first general applicant retail-only marijuana business in the state to be licensed by the state. The state Cannabis Control Commission gave the OK on Thursday. Owner Caroline E. Frankel said in an interview she was “over the moon excited.” …

UXBRIDGE — The wait was worth it for the state’s first woman-owned, small-business marijuana retailer to open, and for the several dozen eager customers in line more than an hour before the 11 a.m. grand opening Friday.  As the moment approached, Caroline Frankel stepped out of Caroline’s Cannabis, 640 Douglas St., and shouted a hearty, “Welcome, my cannabis enthusiasts!” Frankel, …

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A horde of people gathered outside Caroline’s Cannabis in Uxbridge Tuesday evening and acted as backup singers as Snoop Dogg’s “Young Wild and Free” blasted through the speakers in from the retail marijuana store. “So what we smoke weed, we’re just having fun. We don’t care who sees,” the crowd sang. It wasn’t a normal track, though, as inside Caroline’s …

Each of the three signed agreements with marijuana companies planning to open in Hopedale requires those companies to pay the town quarterly fees on top of their taxes. HOPEDALE – Town officials have signed yet another agreement with a marijuana business. This week’s deal is at least the third such agreement with cannabis businesses that Hopedale officials have signed this …

Rapper Snoop Dogg is also a cannabis entrepreneur, having launched Leafs By Snoop in Denver in 2015 – the first major celebrity to brand and market a line of legal marijuana products. UXBRIDGE – A little bit of Southern California cool made its way to this former mill town of 14,000 in the Blackstone Valley on Tuesday when rapper and …

HOPEDALE – Uxbridge-based Caroline’s Cannabis is one step closer to opening an adult-use marijuana store in Hopedale. “I think everyone was in agreement that obviously it’s a business we’d like to see operating here in town,” Town Administrator Steven Sette said Monday night. “It was just a matter of putting an agreement together so it works for everybody.” Planned for …