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US (MA): Cannabis inspectors carefully watching over the cannabis industry

On a Tuesday morning in October, two CCC inspectors pull up to the Sira Naturals Cultivation and Manufacturing facility in a pair of gray, unmarked crossover SUVs. The only giveaway? The vehicles have official state license plates.

This scene plays out nearly every day as the 15 inspectors from the Cannabis Control Commission fan out across Massachusetts to ensure everything at the various retail shops, grow facilities, manufacturing plants and independent labs is operating within regulation.

On this particular day, the two inspectors arrive at the metal building deep inside a Milford industrial park. Company officials know the inspectors are coming, and that they have a WBUR reporter and photographer in tow, but announced visits aren't always the case.

"Sometimes we do what we call an 'unannounced inspection,'" says Patrick Beyea, the commission's director of investigations. "We try to mix those up, so they don't know we're coming.

Read more at wbur.org

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