Milford Company Can Now Manufacture, Deliver Marijuana

MILFORD, MA—Last month, Milford-based Sira Naturals was named the first business in Massachusetts to be awarded a license to grow adult-use cannabis in the state.

On Monday, the company was also given the approval from the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission to manufacture marijuana-infused products and to transport marijuana, reports State House News.

The company grows medical marijuana at the facility already that it sends to dispensaries in Cambridge, Needham and Somerville, and will now be able to cultivate product for recreational facilities. The menuincludes cannabis flowers, prerolls and edibles.

Milford voters in a ballot measure earlier this year supported banning recreational marijuana businesses from town, but with a caveat: existing businesses could continue. Of the 2,629 casting a vote in a special election, 73 percent backed that ballot measure.

First, Milford joined (even if only slightly) others across the country by approving marijuana establishments during the state ballot question in the presidential election of 2016. In September last year, Milford voters, by a little more than half, approved a bylaw to prohibit recreational marijuana establishments in the town. Then in October, at Town Meeting, voters overwhelmingly approved an amendment to allow those businesses that were established before July 2017 to continue.

ProVerde is the other of the two Milford marijuana-growing businesses that exist in town.
The Cannabis Control Commission received 51 applications from cannabis businesses across Massachusetts. Fifteen of those are from potential retailers.

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