Oliver Curne is getting some backlash for the things he said about marijuana at City Hall this Tuesday.

The millionaire said he was joking when he said he didn’t want “undesirable elements” near his mansion, but that’s not the worst of what he said.

At the Tuesday City Hall meeting about a proposed medical marijuana dispensary, Curne, a retired venture capitalist, said:

My name is Oliver Curme. I live in the Burrage Mansion right around the corner from this proposed ‘dispensary.’ All my friends and I are against this because it will bring undesirable elements into the neighborhood. Just so you know what I mean, there are Army vets with PTSD, and we don’t want them in the neighborhood. Just give me a break, they can get over it. The second thing is people in wheelchairs with MS or whatever.

I think the third one is women with breast cancer. They all have that cadaverous look, and they wear those ridiculous turbans. For goodness sake, Newbury Street is a high-end shopping district. We don’t want people like that scaring off the clientele.

Wow, he mocked cancer, veterans, PTSD, all at once.

When Curme was addressed about his statements, he said it was an act. He said to

NBC Boston, “The point that I was trying to make is a marijuana dispensary will bring in the people who really need this, people who are sick, people who have cancer, and this is the only choice for them,” he told the news station. “If you listen to what I said it was so over the top that I think it’s the only way [my comments] could have been construed.”


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