With pot law, Mass. enters legal gray zone
Marijuana becomes legal in Massachusetts on Thursday for adults 21 and older. But if you want to purchase some pot, you’re going to need to do it the old-fashioned way: from a guy who knows a guy.
Massachusetts is now entering a legal gray zone, because retail stores selling marijuana won’t open until January 2018 at the earliest. Adults will be permitted to purchase, possess, home-grow, and use marijuana starting Thursday, but the people they are buying it from will be breaking the law by selling the drug. Only sales from the regulated market will be legal, and that market won’t open for at least a year.
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