BOSTON – The Massachusetts Senate voted 32 to 2 Thursday to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco in the state to 21 from 18 to 21, passing legislation that supporters said would cut down youth smoking and nicotine addiction.
The bill, compiled by the Joint Committee on Public Health based on several separate measures, also would ban pharmacies and health-care institutions from selling tobacco products and prohibit the use of electronic cigarettes in places where smoking is already banned.
BOSTON – A leading consortium of medical marijuana clinics has confirmed that one of its offices was involved in securing the drug for a man prosecutors said had marijuana in his system when he struck and killed State Trooper Thomas Clardy in March, according to a WFXT-TV report Friday.
Late Thursday, the state Board of Registration in Medicine suspended the license of Dr. John C. Nadolny, the medical director of the Canna Care Docs clinic group, alleging that he delegated his nontransferable authority "to diagnose patients as having a debilitating medical condition" to nurse practitioners. Such a finding is required before a person can obtain legal permission buy cannabis products from a dispensary.
