The Couple Who Turned a California Vacation Into Massachusetts' Only Social-Equity Weed Fleet

In January 2020, Chris Fevry and Dharry Pauyo took a trip to California and watched something that did not yet exist back home: cannabis arriving at a front door on demand, tracked and legal, like a pizza with a paper trail. The couple - engaged, both in their late twenties, both from communities that spent decades on the wrong end of drug enforcement - flew back to Massachusetts with an idea that most aspiring cannabis entrepreneurs skipped right past. They would not open a dispensary. They would build the trucks.

The result is Your Green Package, a licensed cannabis courier and logistics company that moves regulated marijuana between growers, manufacturers and retailers across the Commonwealth. It launched home delivery in July 2021, was among the first operators to do so in the state, and has since become the connective tissue of a market that most people only see at the register. Today it is the only social-equity-owned third-party transporter in Massachusetts - and one of the rare equity licenses that grew into a genuine operating business rather than a permit gathering dust.

01The unglamorous middle of the supply chain

Legal cannabis has a logistics problem that most industries never have to think about. Because marijuana remains illegal at the federal level, none of the national carriers - FedEx, UPS, the postal service, Amazon - can legally touch it. Every state that legalizes has to grow its own delivery layer from scratch, complete with licensing, chain-of-custody rules, digitized manifests and state-mandated tracking. It is the plumbing of the entire market, and it is exactly the part nobody wants to build.

That is the gap Your Green Package stepped into. Instead of competing for shelf space, it sells a service: picking up sealed, regulated product from one licensed operator and delivering it, compliant and documented, to another. Growers and manufacturers hire it to reach dispensaries. Dispensaries hire it to reach customers. The company sits in the middle as neutral infrastructure - it does not care whose weed it is, only that the paperwork is airtight and the delivery is on time.

02The pivot from doorsteps to loading docks

Your Green Package started where the headlines were: consumer delivery. In its early footprint - Greater Boston, Northampton and Franklin County - it partnered with dispensaries including NETA, the New England Treatment Access chain, to bring recreational cannabis directly to adults' homes. It was the visible, photogenic version of the business.

But the founders noticed where the real volume lived. The bottleneck was not the last mile to a customer; it was the constant movement of product between the licensed operators upstream - the growers, the manufacturers, the shops restocking their inventory. In August 2022, the company formally launched business-to-business cannabis transport services and leaned into wholesale logistics. It was a quieter business than doorstep delivery, but a deeper one.

That portfolio now includes licensed operators such as Freshly Baked, Northeast Alternatives and Rove. These are not one-off drop-offs; they are recurring relationships that depend on the transporter showing up, every time, with the documentation a regulator could inspect on the spot.

03Software built for a suspicious regulator

The detail that separates Your Green Package from other couriers is not the vans. It is the code. The company built its own proprietary logistics platform - the only one among Massachusetts third-party transporters - designed specifically around cannabis compliance rather than adapted from generic delivery software.

The platform integrates with METRC, the state's seed-to-sale tracking system, and handles the scheduling of pickups, real-time tracking of deliveries, and the digitized manifests that turn a van full of regulated product into an audit-ready record. In an industry where a paperwork error can mean a suspended license, "we built our own software" is not a vanity line. It is the product.

04The rule they helped rewrite

Here is the part of the story that a normal logistics company never gets to tell. For years, Massachusetts required two employees in every cannabis delivery vehicle - the so-called "two-driver rule." For a small operator, that meant paying two salaries for every single trip, doubling the labor cost of a business whose entire premise is moving things efficiently. It was a quiet tax on exactly the equity operators the state said it wanted to help.

Your Green Package did not just absorb it. The company helped lead the advocacy to change it, and in December 2023 the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission approved single-driver deliveries. In one regulatory stroke, the math of the entire delivery sector improved - for Your Green Package and for every competitor behind it.

05Equity as an operating fact, not a slogan

Massachusetts wrote social equity into its cannabis law, reserving certain licenses - including the courier permit Your Green Package holds - for entrepreneurs from communities disproportionately harmed by prohibition. Plenty of those licenses were issued. Far fewer turned into companies that could scale.

Your Green Package is the counterexample. It is majority women- and minority-owned, its workforce includes people of color, women, LGBTQ+ individuals and veterans with disabilities, and its management team is entirely people of color. When the state released its Cannabis Social Equity Trust Fund - which redistributes a share of marijuana tax revenue to equity businesses in grants that can reach $500,000 - Chris Fevry called the move "monumental," praising Massachusetts for continuing to lead on equity in the industry.

06How the money works

The business model is fee-for-service logistics. Your Green Package charges licensed operators to transport, store and fulfill regulated product, plus per-delivery fees on the consumer side. Crucially, its revenue scales with the number of manifests it moves rather than the price of the product inside them - which keeps it neutral, and lets any licensee hire it without turning it into a competitor. The company raised a reported $2.5 million Series A in 2022 to build the fleet, warehousing and software that the model depends on.

Warehousing rounds out the offering. Storage and fulfillment services, including temperature-controlled handling to preserve product integrity, let the company hold and stage inventory rather than only shuttle it - the difference between a courier and a logistics partner.

07Where it would - and wouldn't - work

The company's edge is also its boundary. Everything about Your Green Package is stitched to Massachusetts: its license, its METRC integration, its regulatory relationships, its equity certification. That specificity is the moat inside the state and the wall at its border. Cannabis logistics does not port across state lines the way ordinary freight does, because there are no legal interstate cannabis shipments at all. The playbook is repeatable in another market only by rebuilding it, license and software and relationships, from the ground up.

It is also a business exposed to the pen it helped guide. Rules that were rewritten once can be rewritten again, tax structures shift, and a maturing market invites larger operators to bring delivery in-house. For now, being the only social-equity transporter with its own platform is a strong position. It is not a permanent one - which may be exactly why the founders spend their energy on the rulebook and the software, the two things a bigger competitor cannot simply buy.

What is not in dispute is the shape of the bet. Fevry and Pauyo looked at the least glamorous, most heavily regulated slice of a new industry and decided that was the part worth owning. A smiling green box on the logo; audit-ready manifests underneath. So far, the boring part has held up.