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Planning Board recommends removing ban on on-site packaging at cannabis retailers
Summary
The Planning Board voted to recommend City Council adopt a zoning change removing a local prohibition on packaging and repackaging of cannabis products at retail stores, aligning local rules with state guidance and preserving local review through the cannabis business permit process.
The Cambridge Planning Board on May 6 voted to recommend that the City Council adopt a zoning petition to remove a local prohibition on packaging and repackaging of cannabis products at retail stores.
Planning staff said the proposed change would strike the clause in the city’s cannabis-use standards that requires retail cannabis products to be prepackaged off-site unless the store met production-facility requirements. Staff presented the change as part of broader updates to align local rules with state law and to retain certain operability and public-health protections in the city’s cannabis business permit process.
Christina (last name given in the record as representing the Economic Opportunity and Development Division) summarized the history: Cambridge has regulated medical and adult-use cannabis…
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