Cannabis Control Commission chairman Steve Hoffman had said he hoped the agency would issue a final license Thursday.
Recreational marijuana stores in Massachusetts are unlikely to open until the end of October or even later, after the state’s Cannabis Control Commission on Thursday failed to issue final licenses as hoped.
Commission chairman Steve Hoffman told reporters two weeks ago that representatives of several pot firms with provisional licenses had indicated their facilities were ready to be inspected — a key step before opening for sales — and could be handed final licenses Thursday. That didn’t happen, Hoffman said, because the agency “just didn’t get peoples’ requests [for inspections] in time.”
“As soon as we got the requests we responded immediately and scheduled them as soon as we could,” Hoffman said after the commission’s meeting Thursday. “That’s not something that we delayed.”
Source: Marijuana stores unlikely to open until late October or November – The Boston Globe