Amid pandemic, Boston-based Dinner at Mary’s pivots to DIY cannabis edibles.
At first, quarantine cooking was kind of fun.
We snapped up vintage stand mixers, flirted with different grocery delivery services, obsessively reverse-engineered our favorite fast food dishes, and flooded social media with pictures of our sourdough successes and focaccia fails.
But seven months after the coronavirus prompted major changes to how Americans eat, and with a long winter looming, a certain culinary weariness is setting in.
“It almost seemed like we had this magic potion that other people couldn’t get to,” said Pete’s wife, Julie. By the time Pete Frates tried medical marijuana, he and his family felt like they had run out of options for treating his anxiety. The Boston College graduate, who had been diagnosed with ALS years earlier, was already seeing top psychiatrists and therapists at Massachusetts General Hospital. He had tried every anxiety drug made available to…
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Pure Oasis is the state’s first marijuana store established under a state program to aid people who were unfairly targeted by the war on drugs.
Nearly four years after Massachusetts voters legalized recreational marijuana, Boston has its first adult-use cannabis store.
Pure Oasis, which opened at 11 a.m. in Dorchester to dozens waiting in line, is also the first marijuana store owned by people in the state’s economic empowerment program, designed to aid those who were targeted by the war on drugs. Its grand opening marked a milestone in Massachusetts’ pioneering effort to use some of legalization’s windfall to rectify racial and social inequities.
