What If We Regulated Alcohol Like Cannabis? The Hypocrisy of Legal Weed Laws

by | Oct 19, 2026 | High Dispatch | 0 comments

 A liquor-retail trade group argued that the state’s cannabis oversight is lax and should look more like alcohol’s. Wes Ritchie, co-founder of a craft cannabis company who has also operated a package store, fired back that the grid runs the other way: cannabis is already regulated more strictly than nearly anything else on a Massachusetts shelf, and it’s the safer product.  

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