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The delay is hard to justify. Nearly seven years ago, Massachusetts began the legal sale of adult-use cannabis. But the Cannabis Control Commission is only now taking final public comments on how the state should regulate what’s called the “social consumption” of marijuana.

A lot has changed in this industry since licensed vendors began to sell cannabis in November 2018. In all that time, social consumption sat on the horizon, but never drew closer for entrepreneurs who found their margins pinched, as more and more outlets came

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