Here I go. Who is Bill Delahunt? Well early in his career he was an asst. DA prosecuting hundreds for simple cannabis possession here in the Bay State. For a while he was a state rep. and eventually made his way to the US Congress where he spent years wheeling and dealing.He retires and comes back home to start a consulting firm,apparently to supplement his very generous govt. pension and bennys that the rest of us could only dream about. Soon after,Massachusetts voters approved a medical marijuana law which took effect on Jan. 1 2013 with a provision allowing up to 35 dispensaries to open via a license from the state DPH. The DPH decided to create a very arduous ,expensive and very competitive licensing process for the first 20 dispensaries.It required a non-refundable $50,000.00 for those applicants that made it to the second stage of the process(around 200 made it to this stage).These applicants were then vetted by the DPH using a scoring system that included backround checks,business experience,capital reserves,etc. with 160 being the highest score one could get.Well,long story short, the Honorable Bill Delahunt won 3 out of 3 of these coveted licenses making him the biggest drug dealer in the state with a virtual monopoly on the entire southeast Mass. region,and with lower scores than most other applicants for that region! Naturally lawsuits were filed and there was a public outroar that has thrown the whole MMJ licensing process into disarray to the point that they may have to start all over again.There's a lot more to this story aside from the Delahunt angle that has caused the delay but the gall of giving a former prosecutor 3 licenses reeks of hypocrisy and corruption.This state is one of the most corrupt and criminal places in American politics and I'm embarrassed to call it home.
