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ZBA delays vote on Boston medical marijuana clinic

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 07/07/2015 - 23:56

The Zoning Board of Appeals yesterday put off a vote on a permit to the first company awarded a provisional state license to sell medical marijuana in Boston until the company confers with the most vocal opponents of its downtown location.

After hearing testimony from both sides in a packed meeting yesterday, ZBA Chairwoman Christine Araujo told Patriot Care Corp., which wants to open a dispensary at 21 Milk St. near Downtown Crossing, to come back Aug. 4 after talks with the Downtown Boston Business Improvement District, whose chairman said the group opposes the location.

“Our members have invested a lot of dollars in this area at a time when it was in decline,” DBBID chairman John H. Spurr Jr. said. “We feel it’s on the upswing, and this is a step in the wrong direction.”

Boston police Superintendent Bernard O’Rourke said his department also opposes allowing a dispensary at...

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