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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has come up with regulations governing medical marijuana.(File/Reuters)

Council gives approval of medical marijuana regulations

Six months after voters OK’d a ballot measure legalizing medical marijuana, the state’s Public Health Council on Wednesday approved proposed regulations.

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Sonja Farak, a chemist at a western Massachusetts drug laboratory, has been charged with tampering with drug evidence, the second such allegation at a crime lab in the state in recent months. (Massachusetts State Police/Reuters)

Another Mass. chemist charged in drug lab scandal

A chemist who worked at a Massachusetts state drug lab was indicted Monday on charges of tampering with evidence and stealing cocaine.

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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has come up with regulations governing medical marijuana.(File/Reuters)

State issues draft of medical marijuana regulations

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health filed proposed regulations Friday to govern the distribution and use of medical marijuana in the Bay State.

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The state drug testing lab in Jamaica Plain was closed after former chemist Annie Dookhan was arrested for evidence tampering. (Nicolaus Czarnecki/Metro)

State drug lab backlog will take ‘at least two years’

Prosecutors and public safety officials say it will take years to handle all of the cases that have been stacking [...]

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Two Drexel Hill brothers are charged with running a marijuana ring that distributed hundreds of pounds of the drug in the Philadelphia area each month. (Metro File Photo.)

Mass. Department of Public Health holding first ‘Listening Session’ today in Worcester

Today the Massachusetts Department of Public Health will hold the first of three public “Listening Sessions” to get input from [...]

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