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New Pot Shop in Boston, Massachusetts

There’s a new pot shop in Boston’s South End called “Rebelle.”  The owner, Charlotte Hanna, wants to focus on making people feel healthy and well, rather than getting them high like traditional pot is known for (although she’s not opposed to that, either).

I got a chance to talk to Charlotte about the shop, and how it’s been described as “an alternative flower shop.”  Charlotte said that’s probably because the neighborhood that the place is in used to be the city’s Flower district.  The whole area has been developed into a big bio-tech campus, with other shops included.  The warehouse where the dispensary is located is the same area as the last standing flower wholesaler in the neighborhood.  You can’t go into Rebelle and buy a dozen roses. However, Charlotte said she is selling a different kind of flower.

Massachusetts Customers Said Edibles Put Them to Sleep

Customers were coming in saying that the edibles they were taking made them feel sleepy.  Charlotte was telling me about an edible she’s developed with green tea, that won’t put you to sleep.  There’s another product that she has called THCV, which she’s super excited to bring to market as well.

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KEYPORT, NJ — The brand-new marijuana dispensary in Keyport will open this Thursday, April 25, the store just confirmed to Patch Tuesday.

This is Premo pot dispensary, located at 2 East Front Street in Keyport. Their website is www.Premocannabis.co

Premo is licensed to sell recreational marijuana only.

This Thursday will be their soft opening. They are planning a grand opening for May 18.

“We want to make sure our systems are all in working order, and also how our consumers respond to the menu,” said Premo president Darrin Chandler, Jr. “We will use this time to tune everything up leading to our grand opening.”

Premo is founded and owned by two local Keyport residents, Donald “Donny” Blanks and his son, Skye Blanks. Donald is the owner of Keyport’s Real Gymm, the old-school style gym where he is also an athletic trainer.

The nearest pot dispensary is Monteverde in Red Bank, which was just approved for recreational sales in February; followed by Garden State Dispensary (owned by AyrWellness) on Rt. 35 in Eatontown, which sells both recreational and medical marijuana.

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KEYPORT, NJ — The brand-new marijuana dispensary in Keyport will open this Thursday, April 25, the store just confirmed to Patch Tuesday.

This is Premo pot dispensary, located at 2 East Front Street in Keyport. Their website is www.Premocannabis.co

Premo is licensed to sell recreational marijuana only.

This Thursday will be their soft opening. They are planning a grand opening for May 18.

“We want to make sure our systems are all in working order, and also how our consumers respond to the menu,” said Premo president Darrin Chandler, Jr. “We will use this time to tune everything up leading to our grand opening.”

Premo is founded and owned by two local Keyport residents, Donald “Donny” Blanks and his son, Skye Blanks. Donald is the owner of Keyport’s Real Gymm, the old-school style gym where he is also an athletic trainer.

The nearest pot dispensary is Monteverde in Red Bank, which was just approved for recreational sales in February; followed by Garden State Dispensary (owned by AyrWellness) on Rt. 35 in Eatontown, which sells both recreational and medical marijuana.

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Night owls, third-shift workers, and even plain old procrastinators have cause to celebrate this month, as Philly has a new 24/7 cheese vending machine. Find it housed in a bright-red booth right outside of Perrystead Dairy (1639 N. Hancock St.) in Kensington.

Step inside the booth and peruse the selection of Perrystead’s own award-winning cheese, plus charcuterie, jams, and crackers. Tap or insert your credit card to pay (no cash), then open the door to your chosen good, Automat-style.

Need a cheeseboard to plate your haul? You can buy those, too — in marble, wood, or slate. According to Perrystead founder and cheesemaker Yoav Perry, cheese knives are on the way. That makes Perrystead a one-stop shop for late-night cravings, last-minute gifting, and on-the-fly picnicking, which you can do steps away in the creamery’s lovely pollinator garden.

The cheese dispensary — Perry’s preferred term — was installed and stocked earlier this month, but it flew under-the-radar for its first couple weeks of operation. That changed last Friday, when chef Michael Solomonov tipped off the wider public on Instagram.

“[Solomonov’s] stuff took off and then a bunch of people posted stories about it,” Perry said, describing the inevitable social-media scrum that follows the emergence of

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“I am a little nervous about our total signature count. I think it’s really important that supporters of cannabis reforms are not complacent.”

By John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight

Cannabis advocates in South Dakota hope the weekend’s unofficial pot holiday and its associated concerts and dispensary discounts will improve the odds of getting recreational marijuana on the general election ballot in November.

April 20 is widely celebrated in the cannabis community as 4/20, and dispensaries in South Dakota took advantage of the date to offer special deals to medical marijuana patients.

The number began its evolution from an inside joke into an international code for pot culture after 1971. That was the year a group of high school kids in California began to meet at 4:20 p.m. after school to smoke marijuana. One of those students wound up working with the band The Grateful Dead, whose members and fans adopted the shorthand. The number eventually caught the attention of a reporter for the marijuana-centric High Times magazine, who put it in the publication and presented it to a wide audience.

Events double as petition drives

The events in South Dakota extend beyond dispensaries. Big’s Bar in Sioux Falls hosted its

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Philly Gets Its First 24-Hour Cheese Vending Machine IN THIS SECTION

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For Nick Rinella, CEO of Missouri-based Hippos Cannabis, Saturday’s 4/20 Day was the best of the times and the worst of times.

The best: Customers lined up at Hippos’ three dispensaries in Missouri, which includes locations in Chesterfield, Springfield and Columbia. “A lot of customers showed up,” Rinella says. “We had DJs there and fun activities.”

The bad news is that Hippos’ point-of-sale system, Dutchie, crashed. Rinella says the dispensaries were not able to check out customers at a normal pace over a period that stretched to a frustrating five hours. At one point, people were waiting as long as 40 minutes for their purchase to be completed.

Perhaps the surprising thing is that some people did stay — but certainly not everyone. “We probably lost $150,000 to $200,000 in sales,” Rinella says. That number goes up even higher if you calculate lost sales at the dispensaries across Missouri that Hippos supplies, many of which also rely on Dutchie. “We have over 100 different retail customers we sell our products to, and they were down as well so they couldn’t sell our products. We probably lost a couple million dollars across our system.”

Indeed, Dutchie’s woes were not limited to St. Louis, or

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Former Minnesota Governor and ex-professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is the latest celebrity to start a cannabis brand. Ventura served as Governor of the Land of 10,000 Lakes from 1999 to 2003. One could say that no other Governor serving during the late ’90’s or early 2000’s had quite the extensive background in variously different forms of popular entertainment as Ventura, with the exception of a certain former bodybuilder from Austria and “Governor-nator” from California. Fun fact, both of those former Governors starred in the 1987 action blockbuster Predator.

Celebrities and cannabis ventures

Celebrities have been putting their hats into the further mainstream cannabis industry in droves by starting cannabis ventures, to greatly varying degrees of success. Some award-receiving cannabis brands such as Willie’s Reserve (by country music legend Willie Nelson) have become mainstays at dispensaries across the states. Legendary hip-hop artists and cannabis connoisseurs Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa have each had multiple forays into the billion-dollar industry of their favorite plant. Athletes like Mike Tyson, who created the wildly popular Tyson 2.0 cannabis brand, have also found success in the space.

Jesse Ventura: a diverse background

Long before Ventura became politically involved, he served

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The historic opening of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians marijuana dispensary on the Qualla Boundary on April 20 brought the drug to market for the first time in North Carolina.

Though only currently available for medicinal purposes, the sale of recreational marijuana could soon become a reality.

The EBCI Tribal Council is inching closer to passing legislation that would allow for the recreational sale of the drug. A Tribal Council member suggested a recreational marijuana law could pass by June.

Marijuana is not legal for medical or recreational use in North Carolina. It is legal for medical sale from the Great Smoky Cannabis Co. dispensary on the Qualla Boundary, home of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

During an April 15 Tribal Council work session on an adult-use cannabis resolution, Tribal Council member Boyd Owle noted the progress they were making toward passing the legislation.

“Maybe come June, we can get it going and approve recreational,” Owle said during the meeting.

While the EBCI held a referendum in September on the legalization of recreational marijuana, Tribal Council has yet to pass an ordinance updating the regulations on adult use.

Nearly 70% of EBCI voters supported the recreational marijuana referendum, the Citizen Times previously reported. The next

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Law Director John Hatcher said the Ohio Legislature is still deciding on marijuana laws. Scott Truxell/Van Wert independent

SCOTT TRUXELL/independent editor

Clarification on marijuana consumption was made during Monday night’s meeting of Van Wert City Council, but the matter of allowing recreational marijuana dispensaries appears to be far from settled.

During a special “Council of the Whole” meeting held before the regular meeting, council members discussed both topics and listened to input and questions from members of the public who attended the meeting. Approximately 20 people showed up for the meeting, but not all spoke.

Many of the people in attendance seemed to agree on prohibiting marijuana consumption at places like city parks. One person suggested posting times when marijuana consumption would be allowed at parks, while another suggested treating consumption much the same as DORA (Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area), which is highly regulated.

Council members later amended proposed legislation dealing with cannabis consumption and heard the second of three readings. The proposed ordinance was renamed “an ordinance banning the consumption of cannabis on all designated city properties.” The list of designated properties includes Smiley Park, Jubilee Park, Franklin Park, Fountain Park, Rotary Park and the reservoir, along with city-owned

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