- Marijuana leaf blower demonstration, like the Kush Cannon deployed at the 2019 Emerald Cup in Santa Rosa, CA gets the crowd stoned in seconds
- Live performance by rapper Busta Rhymes, who broke the Guinness World Record in 2000 for most syllables in one second during a freestyle rap
- Organized by the Farmacist, a dispensary in South County, Rhode Island
- Sponsored by Nature’s Heritage Cannabis, a brand of MariMed Inc. headquartered in Norwood, MA
- Consumers 21 years old and up can rank cannabis products by purchasing a Judges Kit in-person at one of six licensed retailers in Massachusetts
- Diem Cannabis, located on 74 Grafton Street in Worcester, participated in this year’s event
Since the legalization of Marijuana in Massachusetts, Worcester has become home to a number of cannabis retailers
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts established the Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) to develop and enforce regulations as part of its Mission and Operating Principles
MariMed Inc. provides robust Financial Information on its website which begs further investigation into their business as a retailer of their own brands, as well as affiliate brands and investments
According to the CCC’s Guidance on Licensure, published June 2021, license application fees to grow cannabis range from $100 to $1500, and annual license fees cost between $625 and $25,000
In less than a decade, Worcester has gone from criminalizing and arresting users and cultivators of cannabis to celebrating it openly and profiting off new regulations
Locally owned and independent vape shops, which grew in popularity in the city prior to 2020 as an alternative to cigarette smoking, have all but closed across the city
Access to marijuana continues to rise with more recreational retail shops opening across Worcester in addition to medical marijuana dispensaries
The cost of cigarettes continues to rise, with the state pocketing that money as people continue buying cigarettes exclusively since the closure of vape shops
In less than 30 years, the public embraces marijuana as it once embraced tobacco; and is increasingly shunning tobacco as it once did with cannabis
