A medical marijuana dispensary in Leicester, Massachusetts may be the very first to receive a retail cannabis license in the state.
It will be next Monday that the Cannabis Control Commission votes on whether Cultivate Holdings will be the company to get the first license.
The license would allow it to sell recreational marijuana products to any adult over the age of 21.
Cannabis Control Commission investigators will have to inspect the store and the owners must arrange to have their fingerprints taken, and compared with prints on a national criminal database.
Cultivate Holding’s president, Sam Barber, remarked, “It’s a pretty exciting time.
We’ve been kind of lining up everything and felt good about it but I was not expecting to get that call this morning.”
Leicester Town Administrator David Genereux stated, “They were very upfront when they came in to set up their first dispensary and cultivation for medicinal marijuana.
They’ve been a great neighbor. They’ve been at events assisting the town not looking for any publicity on it, they’ve just been there to help.”
“If all of the various companies … actually come to fruition and actually do [as well] as they believe their marketing plans will do, it will mean probably over a million dollars a year to the town,” Genereaux also said.
