Overview
- Negotiators reached a House–Senate compromise Monday, with votes expected this week before the bill heads to Gov. Maura Healey.
- The plan shrinks the Cannabis Control Commission from five members to three, gives the governor all appointment power, and ends current commissioners’ terms when the law takes effect.
- Adults would be allowed to buy and possess up to two ounces of cannabis for recreational use, up from one ounce under current law.
- The bill ends the rule that medical marijuana companies must grow, process, and sell under a single license and gives social equity businesses a two-year head start on new medical retail licenses.
- A separate activist campaign is pursuing a November ballot question to repeal recreational legalization while keeping medical cannabis and a one-ounce personal limit.