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Longer hours approved at four dispensaries - including 11 p.m. on Newbury Street
By Oliver Blake on Tue, 05/16/2023 - 10:48pm
The Boston Cannabis Board today approved closing-hour extensions at marijuana dispensaries in Back Bay, Roxbury, Dorchester and Roslindale.
Rooted In, 331 Newbury St., Back Bay, won permission to stay open until 11 p.m., seven days a week. Previously, they were only licensed to stay open until 10 p.m., Monday through Saturday and until 8 a.m. on Sunday.
High Profile x Budega, 561 Dudley St., Roxbury, and High Profile x Budega, 43 Freeport Street, Dorchester, can now stay open until 10 p.m., an hour later than before.
High Profile x Budega, 3995 Washington St., Roslindale, won a closing-time extension from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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"all right, all right, all
"all right, all right, all right”.
- David Wooderson
makes sense
the typical customers at Freeport Street are moms and dads who spend a couple of hours supervising the kids doing homework every night. everyone needs a couple of gummies to relax after that.
Everything for the public
Everything for the public health.
The question should always be
Were it alcohol instead of cannabis, would this be okay?
If the neighbors are okay with this, it's an okay change.
That's right let's always do
That's right let's always do what the neighbors want.
Standard liquor store closing time is 11 pm
I think mandated by state law.
Since when ...
Do you have any experience with public health?
Please cite some evidence to support this being a public health issue and not simply an administrative one. APHA, NACCHO, MMA, or even scholarly journal is good.
good
The potential for negative outcomes from this is pretty negligible. Personally I see no good reason why these shops shouldn't have 100% leeway to set their own hours.
Maybe people are finally coming around to the realization that cannabis isn't just another alcohol. No stumbling drunks loitering, no addicts habitually making small purchases the way alcoholics survive off nips, no broken glass.
Except cannabis smells disgusting and pollutes the sidewalks.
And, of course, laws against public consumption are unenforced and probably unenforceable.
We never should have legalized smokeable and vape-able products. Eat all the brownies and gummies you want, but keep your exhaust out of my lungs.
(tiny violin)
(tiny violin)
It stinks
It does stink and I smoke. And I'm tired of it too. Walking down the street, on subway platforms, billowing smell when a driver opens the door on a bus stop where someone just put one out.
I'm immune to some odor, but some of the crap I smell on the street is garbage weed that ain't being sold in stores. Its cheap street weed that young folks use to roll up fat spifls. Its gross.
I didn't vote for people to smoke wherever they felt like, but if the vote was put out today after knowing what I've seen, I'd still vote for it.
Why? Because the issues I see with enforcement, I see everywhere else outside of cannabis. People smoking cigs on the subway, throwing trash wherever they feel like, drag racing, cars not yielding to pedestrians, cars speeding, and on and on an don
My point: the "enforcement" issue isn't specific to cannabis, its happening everywhere. Its like people don't care about 'the law' anymore and we have a far greater issue on our hands than a few people taking a few puffs down a sidewalk.
At least treat it like cigarette smoke.
I agree it stinks and you also make good points re existing enforcement.
I’d be happy if pot smoke were at least treated like cigarette smoke. When someone smokes tobacco in near a building entrance or outside an apt building, the public loses their collective shit over it. But if it’s pot, hooray! Legalized. WooHoo! It’s good for the economy ! (Never mind that tobacco cigs are taxed beyond belief).
Perhaps
Perhaps Massachusetts has progressed beyond you and you would feel more comfortable in the safe and comforting confines of America's 'Bible Belt', where such horrors are neither permitted nor tolerated.
I hear Kansas is beautiful this time of year.
Don’t know where you read that
But Kansas is NEVER beautiful. You must’ve gotten that book from the Fiction section because it just ain’t true.
Cigs too bro (more so
Cigs too bro (more so actually). Cars too (more so actually). Let's ban anything that has a scent. And anything the could be pollute sidewalks. So I guess let's ban pizza too bro. Also have you felt that pollen in the lungs this year bro? We gotta ban it baby! LETS BAN IT ALL!!!
I'm being dramatic to prove a point. Did it land? Probs not. Ok, didn't think it would.
Imma' go smoke and put my roach back in its lil tube and throw it away responsibly (not on the sidewalk) like I do *every *single* time*. (the last part was serious. I really don't litter. Even though I'm a devil worshiping reefer head)
The drama
Think about the amount of collateral damage from alcohol that we as a society have normalized. Is this really such a big deal?
The drama
Think about the amount of collateral damage from alcohol that we as a society have normalized. Is this really such a big deal?
You knew this was coming
Same as the business going before the community. “We want to open this business and here are our hours of operation”. A year or two later they go to extend their hours. They think we are all dumb.
Where's the harm?
Where's the harm? Be specific. Hypotheticals don't count.
every Brockon dispensary is allowed to be open until 10 pm
IJS
And until recently we've had more dispensaries than Boston.