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Speaker 1: It's been a promise since twenty sixteen, baked into the

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Speaker 1: ballot measure that legalized recreational weed in Massachusetts Amsterdam style

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Speaker 1: cannabis cafes.

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Speaker 2: The chair puts it over the top for in favor

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Speaker 2: a no post.

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Speaker 1: A unanimous vote at the Cannabis Control Commission has approved

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Speaker 1: regulations for social consumption. This could allow businesses that sell

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Speaker 1: pot to let customers light up on premise. It could

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Speaker 1: be a dispensary, a lounge, a yoga studio, A temporary

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Speaker 1: events license could include things like festivals. It's still not

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Speaker 1: clear when this could become a reality. Chair Shannon O'Brien

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Speaker 1: says they still have a lot of work ahead of them.

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Speaker 2: We're going to be basically reading our own roadmap going forward.

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Speaker 1: The new rules could go into effect within weeks. Communities

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Speaker 1: will get to say whether they'll allow social consumption. Madison

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Speaker 1: Rogers WBZ, Boston's news radio