For those who might have skipped a few classes in high school, a quick recap here: in 1773, a group of colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor in what would become one of the most famous tax protests in American history.
This week—some 250 years later—senior leaders at multistate cannabis company MariMed re-enacted that revolt, boarding the 67-foot Liberty Star schooner in period-perfect costumes and reading grievances off an antique-style scroll.
But the modern uprising—a Boston THC party, if you will—did not throw ganja into the Massachusetts Bay, opting instead for sustainable wooden boxes with the word “weed” stamped on them.
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