Several marijuana dispensaries in Massachusetts have been hit with hefty fines.
According to The Telegram & Gazette, the Cannabis Control Commission has fined Garden Remedies Inc., Healthy Pharms Inc., and Acreage Holdings Inc. a total of $800,000 for various infractions.
Garden Remedies, which operates a recreational and medical dispensary in Marlborough, was given a fine of $200,000 for using pesticides and trying to cover up their use by falsifying invoices. The company stated that employees involved had been fired and their actions had been unknown to the executive team.
Healthy Pharms was fined $350,000 for pesticide use over several periods from July 2018 to February 2019, according to the commission.
“Once the company understood the violations, we worked quickly to correct them and have implemented procedures to prevent them from happening again,” said Leo Gontmakher, CEO of Healthy Pharms, who is also the parent company 4Front Ventures.
The Botanist, owned by Acreage Holdings Inc., was given a fine of $250,000 for going forward with applications for licensure while trying to own or have a controlling interest in more than the allowed maximum of three stores.
According to an Acreage spokesman, the company has terminated its relationships with two other provisional license holders.
