On a chilly and rain-soaked day three years in the past, a line of about 100 individuals fashioned outdoors of NETA in Northampton, ready to buy hashish within the metropolis for the primary time.
On the head of the road, Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz made the primary buy — a chocolate bar.
The joy arrived in Northampton about two years after voters in Massachusetts approved the legalization, regulation and taxation of cannabis on Nov. 8, 2016. Legalization adopted the 2012 approval of hashish for medical use and the decriminalization of small quantities of the plant in 2008.
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