Well-funded multistate operators (MSOs) and their lobbyists filed EIGHT bills to seize greater control of Massachusetts’ cannabis industry.
But there’s good news: EON and our legislative champions have a bold legislative agenda to empower equity operators and strengthen the entire industry — without letting MSOs undermine fairness and competition.
The Threat: Corporate Dominance
According to an MSO-funded study, the 14 largest companies already operate nearly 10% of MA’s 350 dispensaries. If some of these bills passed, they could control up to 1/3 of the entire industry by taking over equity businesses.
Help us pass a legislative agenda that uplifts all businesses instead of helping the most profitable become even more profitable by emailing your legislators today.
Why It Matters
Massachusetts voters, legislators, and advocates like you worked hard to ensure our cannabis industry promotes:
- Opportunities for communities harmed by the war on drugs
- Fairness for equity businesses, small businesses, and all licensees
- Quality products for consumers driven by competition
These rules protect competition, quality, and equity, ensuring we avoid corporate monopolies and the cheap, low-quality cannabis and poor working conditions that they bring. Loosening ownership limits now would:
- Destabilize the industry
- Devalue equity licenses
- Decimate the Commonwealth’s efforts to encourage full participation in the industry by those harmed by the war on drugs
Take Action
We urgently need your voice to stop this. Please use our easy form to email your legislators now and show your support for social equity and small businesses.
Help protect current and future social equity cannabis businesses from this transparent effort by MSOs to take over the market at the expense of the Black, Latino, justice-involved and other marginalized communities that legalization was supposed to help.
Learn More
Explore out EON’s Legislative Agenda & Tracker and Ownership Limits resource center.
Thank you for standing up for social equity and small businesses!