As legal marijuana use edges closer to the Island’s mainstream, a group of community leaders concerned about potential negative effects on young people has assembled.

With recreational marijuana sales set to begin this summer in Massachusetts, the legal pot industry has yet to fully arrive on the Island.

In West Tisbury discussion continues over how to regulate the Island’s first medical marijuana dispensary.

West Tisbury selectmen are considering how to word an agreement with the owner of the first medical marijuana dispensary and cultivation facility.

A final public hearing by the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission on the Vineyard last week saw sparse attendance.

Island towns are beginning to grapple with implications of the recreational marijuana law enacted a year ago.

Two members of the newly-appointed state Cannabis Control Commission traveled to the Vineyard Tuesday for a listening session.

The West Tisbury zoning board is poised to decide whether to approve the Island’s first medical marijuana cultivation center.

The state Department of Public Health Friday released the list of the first applicants approved for a registered medical marijuana dispensary — with none in Dukes County, at least yet.

The state has given 20 applicants provisional approval for dispensary licenses. Two are in Barnstable County, one in Mashpee and one in Dennis, two in Plymouth County, one in Plymouth and one in Brockton.

Four Vineyard applicants are among 100 finalists in the race to open medical marijuana dispensaries across the state. Two final applicants are from West Tisbury, and two are from Tisbury.