Island Time, one of two dispensaries on the Island, reopened after a successful back and forth with state regulators Saturday, June 29, and saw a surge of customers. Doors were closed for six-and-a-half weeks starting in May.
After Fine Fettle — the only permitted marijuana growing operation on which Island Time relied — announced that they’ll close in September, and that they’d stopped growing their product in April, Island Time temporarily shut their doors. Federal and state laws restrict the transportation of cannabis over water and by plane.
With no other way to get or grow product, Geoff Rose, owner of Island Time, filed a lawsuit in Suffolk County Superior Court with the Green Lady Dispensary on Nantucket against the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission — the agency that regulates the state’s marijuana program — to permit the immediate transport of products from the mainland to the Island.
In order to fix the broken supply chain, the commission unanimously approved an administrative order that allowed the transportation of marijuana products over state waters between licensed cannabis establishments and treatment centers on June 13.
The order went into effect the next day, June 14, at midnight.
Now, Island Time has reopened and has
