• The Boston Globe found that some dispensaries are agreeing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a municipality’s blessing for a state license.
• [L]ocal leaders contend the negotiations and lucrative contracts are needed to ensure their municipalities have the money to deal with unforeseen problems from dispensaries.
• To break into the Massachusetts medical marijuana market requires a bit of “pay-to-play” — a good bit of it, The Boston Globe has found.
• In Worcester, a dispensary promised to pay the city $450,000 over three years — and $200,000 a year after that — if officials gave their blessing to the business.
• Pictured: Marijuana is poured into a bowl in the back room of a Colorado dispensary before it is placed in one-gram packages for retail sale.

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