After the leisure marijuana market exploded these days all through the Bay State, additional pot shops will rapidly be shutting down throughout the realm.
Trulieve Hashish Corp. simply these days launched that the marijuana massive may be winding down its operations in Massachusetts. The agency’s dispensaries in Worcester, Framingham, and Northampton will shut on the end of June, and Trulieve expects that it’ll cease all operations inside the state by the highest of the yr.
The cannabis behemoth made headlines last yr when a worker who was packaging flooring cannabis into pre-rolls at Trulieve’s cannabis processing facility in Holyoke suffered an bronchial bronchial asthma assault and later died inside the hospital. The Occupational Security and Well being Administration investigated, and the company later settled with OSHA.
Trulieve isn’t the first cannabis agency to shut down pot shops inside the state. Late last yr, the Supply grew to turn into the first dispensary to close in Massachusetts. The retailer was located close to completely different pot shops in Northampton.
Now Trulieve may be taking one different marijuana dispensary off the market in Northampton, along with retailers in Worcester and Framingham. The agency said it’s making an attempt to “protect money and enhance monetary efficiency.”
“These troublesome however needed measures are a part of ongoing efforts to bolster enterprise resilience and our dedication to money preservation as we proceed to concentrate on our enterprise technique of going deep in our core markets and jettisoning non-contributive property,” CEO Kim Rivers said in an announcement. “We stay totally assured in our strategic place and the long run prospects for the trade.”
In December, Trulieve had launched a settlement with OSHA which will end in additional nicely being and safety protections for employees at its cannabis manufacturing providers following the demise of an employee.
As part of the settlement, the distinctive $35,219 good in opposition to Trulieve was lowered to $14,502. Beneath the settlement, Trulieve would analysis whether or not or not flooring cannabis mud is required to be labeled as a “hazardous chemical” inside the occupational setting, in response to OSHA legal guidelines.
“Elevated-scale manufacturing in our trade is a comparatively new endeavor and we’re decided to repeatedly ask questions and search solutions to make our office the most secure and healthiest it might probably presumably be,” Rivers said. “We have already got many protections in place, and we intend to proceed our work with state and federal regulators to verify staff are handled nicely.”
