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After multiple delays for Massachusetts medical marijuana dispensaries, advocates are outraged about the most recent news coming from the statehouse. Two more of the eleven currently approved licensed dispensaries are on hold and might be shutdown by the state after finding that the company’s CEO lied on his application about having a college degree.
“When the state released a list of 11 dispensaries we were immediately concerned because it comes short of the amount that we need for safe and easy patient access,” said Matthew Allen, Executive Director of Massachusetts Patients Advocacy Alliance. “Now that there are additional licenses that are on hold and potentially denied, we are becoming very concerned. We want to reiterate that this is a process that needs to be all about the patients.”
Currently, the likeliest dispensary location to receive a license for Central Massachusetts residents is Milford. The state will not grant another dispensary license in Worcester County until each county in the Commonwealth has one approved and officially licensed dispensary, meaning that Worcester or a more centralized medical marijuana dispensary won’t be opened until 2015 at the earliest.
