May 25, 2017 | Activism, Archives, Legalization, The Law, Write Your Officials
The legislature is now drafting changes to Chapter 334, the law passed in November that legalized cannabis. The new law WILL be changed. Join us at the State House to show the legislature that the voters are watching them. We want Massachusetts farmers to be able to...
May 5, 2017 | Activism, Archives, Legalization, Write Your Officials
Lead Sponsor: Representative Denise Provost What H.3195 would do: · Give Massachusetts Farmers the right to grow marijuana by: o Reversing the exception for marijuana cultivation from the zoning definition of “agriculture” o Removing the state-imposed caps on the...
May 4, 2017 | Activism, Archives, Legalization, Write Your Officials
For immediate release, please May 3, 2017 Contact: Bill Downing 617-834-8746 Andy Gaus 617-232-3896 As the Massachusetts legislature considers a host of changes to the marijuana legalization law passed by the voters last November, MassCann/NORML, which has been...
Mar 23, 2017 | Activism, Archives, Legalization, Petitioning, Write Your Officials
THANK YOU! Lobby Day was a stunning success – all the legislators knew we were coming, many new activists checked in and took our educational packets to talk with their reps, and together, we delivered our packet to 200 reps and senators. And I’d say 90+%...
Jan 17, 2017 | Archives, Legalization, The Law, Write Your Officials
Today is raining! Let’s meet at High Noon inside the State House – after the security searches, we will be in there with maps. Tomorrow, Jan 18th, at High Noon, we will meet at the KOP bench below the State House steps, and we will lobby our...
Jan 5, 2017 | Archives, Elections, Legalization, Published LTE's, Write Your Officials
By Bill Downing, MassCann Dear Daily Times Chronicle editors, A small cadre of legislators who didn’t like a new law just passed by a vote of our citizenry, have changed the law by side-stepping our legislative process. Seven of our two-hundred legislators met...