Legal vices: cannabis and gambling

We’re presenting a “Legal Vices” edition of The Rundown, exploring the current status of legalized gambling and marijuana in the 413.As the cannabis industry faces challenges, growers and sellers raise issue with a 1970’s law they say are holding them back. Meanwhile, municipalities find themselves dealing with so-called “gas station weed,” a product is unregulated and available to people under 21 years of age.Plus, as state lawmakers seek to place limits on sports gambling, the gaming commission offers millions in compensation to western Mass. towns to mitigate impacts that the MGM Springfield casino has had on neighboring communities.We’re running all of that and more with this week’s panel, Jim Kinney, reporter for the Springfield Republican; Paul Tuthill, former Pioneer Valley bureau chief for WAMC; Adam Frenier, NEPM reporter; and former State Senator Eric Lesser, senior counsel at WilmerHale.