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LEGAL POT SLIDER Leicester, MA, 11/19/2018 -- Adam Spencer, 34, (R) talks over his selection with a budtender for the opening of Cultivate, one of the state's first two pot shops. This the first day the store can sell recreational marijuana to adults 21 and older. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 21potopen Reporter:

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Leicester, MA, 11/20/2018 -- A customer looks through a menu at the opening of Cultivate, one of the state's first two pot shops. This the first day the store can sell recreational marijuana to adults 21 and older. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 21potopen Reporter:

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LEGAL POT SLIDER Northampton, MA - 11/20/2018- ] Dave Mech aka

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LEGAL POT SLIDER Leicester, MA, 11/19/2018 -- People wait in line for the opening of Cultivate, one of the state's first two pot shops. This the first day the store can sell recreational marijuana to adults 21 and older. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 21potopen Reporter:

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Leicester, MA, 11/20/2018 -- THC Beverages are on display at the opening of Cultivate, one of the state's first two pot shops. This the first day the store can sell recreational marijuana to adults 21 and older. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 21potopen Reporter:

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LEGAL POT SLIDER Leicester, MA, 11/19/2018 -- Brittani Beeso, 23, of Worcester purchases marijuana at the opening of Cultivate, one of the state's first two pot shops. This the first day the store can sell recreational marijuana to adults 21 and older. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 21potopen Reporter:

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Leicester, MA, 11/20/2018 -- People wait in line at the opening of Cultivate, one of the state's first two pot shops. This the first day the store can sell recreational marijuana to adults 21 and older. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 21potopen Reporter:

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Leicester, MA, 11/20/2018 -- Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Edibles are on display at the opening of Cultivate, one of the state's first two pot shops. This the first day the store can sell recreational marijuana to adults 21 and older. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 21potopen Reporter:

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LEGAL POT SLIDER Leicester, MA, 11/19/2018 -- Iraq veterans Justin Moreau (L) and Nick Ash who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan purchase marijuana at the opening of Cultivate, one of the state's first two pot shops. This the first day the store can sell recreational marijuana to adults 21 and older. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 21potopen Reporter:

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

LEGAL POT SLIDER Leicester, MA, 11/19/2018 -- Iraq Veteran Stephen Mandile, of Uxbridge, hands his money to Cultivate President Sam Barber as he makes the first purchase at the opening of Cultivate, one of the state's first two pot shops. This the first day the store can sell recreational marijuana to adults 21 and older. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 21potopen Reporter:

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Leicester, MA, 11/20/2018 -- A Pure Syringe on display at the opening of Cultivate, one of the state's first two pot shops. This the first day the store can sell recreational marijuana to adults 21 and older. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 21potopen Reporter:

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

LEGAL POT SLIDER Northampton, MA - 11/20/2018- ] Mayor of Northampton David Narkewicz makes the first legal purchase of recreational marijuana from Co-founder of NETA Arnon Vared, on Tuesday morning, November 20, 2018. (Michael Swensen for The Boston Globe) Topic: (business)

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LEGAL POT SLIDER Leicester, MA, 11/19/2018 -- Vegan items were also for sale at the opening of Cultivate, one of the state's first two pot shops. This the first day the store can sell recreational marijuana to adults 21 and older. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 21potopen Reporter:

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Potential customers lined up outside of Cultivate in Leicester Tuesday morning.

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Here?s what on the menu at the pot shops

Cultivate in Leicester and New England Treatment Access (NETA) in Northampton opened for recreational marijuana sales Tuesday.

Representative Joe Kennedy calls for legalization

Kennedy?s change of heart comes in an opinion piece for STAT News on the same day that recreational marijuana sales began for the first time in Massachusetts.

?Potsquatch? shows up for first day of recreational pot sales

Dave Mech, the man in the costume, is known for cropping up at opportune moments.

Some at US Representative Seth Moulton?s town hall-style meeting in Amesbury Monday held signs backing Nancy Pelosi. — Jim Davis/Boston Globe

Seth Moulton catches heat for Pelosi rebellion

A backlash to the congressman is brewing both in D.C. and at home.

Ivanka Trump used personal e-mail for government work, report says

The president?s daughter and adviser sent messages to White House aides, Cabinet members and her assistants.

Melissa Gaudette, 33, and Edwin Benitez-Figueroa, 36, died Saturday when they were hit by a Christmas-themed train near this spot in Wareham. — Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff

?I just had a feeling it was her?

Leon and Jean Gaudette said they don?t know how how or why their daughter and her companion were struck by the ?Train to Christmas Town? Saturday.

Talking Points AM/Larry Edelman

Stocks tumble Tuesday morning

Plus: Boston Scientific makes big UK buy, France wants Ghosn out at Renault, and Mass. goes to pot.

Judge bars US from enforcing Trump asylum ban

Judge Jon Tigar said the US may not refuse asylum to migrants at the southern border.

Argument at Chicago hospital erupts into deadly shooting

A police officer was among those killed Monday at Mercy Hospital.

A man stretches out across empty airplane seats. As the number of passengers increases on flights, it's becoming rarer for passengers to wind up with an empty seat next to them, or better yet, their own row. — Air Asia

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

An ode to the disappearing empty airplane seat

Over the past 15 years, planes have gone from 70 percent full to 85 percent full.

Peter Simon, renowned Martha?s Vineyard photographer and brother of Carly Simon, dies at 71

Simon died Sunday of cardiac arrest, according to a family friend.

?A mess inside and out?: Martha Stewart was not pleased with her first Uber ride

The domestic entrepreneur?s ride started off poorly and only got worse once she saw the condition of the vehicle.

Postal worker charged with stealing mail

Postal service investigators say Stephanie Lacroix was caught on secret cameras installed in her truck and the post office stealing mail.

UMass researchers make unusual discovery in Central Mass. forest soil: Giant viruses

Researchers say they?ve accidentally discovered 16 new giant viruses, organisms that have only been known to science since 2003.

Stephen Curry and the Warriors put on a great show at Oracle Arena ? but some fans in the building can only see it on TV. — ezra shaw/Getty

Dan Shaughnessy

$100 to hang around a Warriors game but not actually see it live? I?ll pass

A bizarre new marketing approach by Golden State lets fans into the building ? but not into the game.

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

Are Lane Johnson and the Eagles having fun yet? And other NFL Week 11 thoughts

Perhaps Johnson is starting to understand that winning every year like the Patriots, even if it is ?miserable,? is a lot more fun than losing.

ALEX SPEIER

Can the Red Sox lead the majors in runs scored again next season?

Over the last 10 seasons, teams who led the majors in runs scored saw a dropoff the following year, an average of 104 fewer runs.

Andrew Mahoney

If boxing?s popularity is waning in the US, why are movies about it so popular?

Boxing movies are still popular in Hollywood. Could a flurry of recent broadcasting deals revive the sport?

RENÉE LOTH

Break your leaf-blower habit

Why can?t we regulate these two-stroke terrors out of their (and our) misery?

JOAN VENNOCHI

Thank you, Seth Moulton, for shaking things up and rubbing people the wrong way

Moulton deserves credit, not damnation, for making Nancy Pelosi press her case to remain House speaker.

PLYMOUTH, MA - 11/24/2014: Turkey dinner on an antique styled table....Food served at Plimouth Plantation on Thanksgiving, including lbs of turkey, number of pies, number of dinner rolls, number of wait staff and kitchen staff working, gallons of gravy, -(David L Ryan/Globe Staff Photo) SECTION: BUSINESS TOPIC 27turkeydinners — David L Ryan/Globe Staff.file 2014

JEFF JACOBY

We gather to give Thanksgiving its meaning

The food matters. But it would be a travesty to reduce Thanksgiving to mere biological consumption.

10 dishes that made us thankful in 2018

What better way to celebrate the holiday than remembering some of the best things we ate this past year?

I?ll save six hours of cooking time on Thanksgiving with a take-out turkey. Is it worth the shame?

A woman considering serving a take-out turkey worries about getting roasted.

Help was a few feet away. Why didn?t they save her?

My wife, Laura Levis, did everything she could to save herself when the asthma attack began. She went to Somerville Hospital and called 911, too. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?

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