Massachusetts issues final recreational pot sales licenses

BOSTON (AP) — Marijuana regulators have issued final licenses to operators planning to open Massachusetts’ first commercial pot shops.
The Cannabis Control Commission on Thursday voted to issue the licenses to Cultivate Holdings in Leicester (LES’-tuhr) and New England Treatment Access in Northampton. Both companies operate medical marijuana dispensaries in those locations and had earlier been granted provisional licenses by the commission to sell recreational marijuana.
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