Pubdate: Fri, 28 Feb 2014
Source: Boston Herald (MA)
Copyright: 2014 The Boston Herald, Inc
Contact:  http://news.bostonherald.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/53
Note: Prints only very short LTEs.
Author: John Zaremba

HEARING LIKELY TO STIR POT

A City Hall hearing Tuesday on Boston's two proposed marijuana 
dispensaries is shaping up to be a showdown between the pot-shop 
purveyors and the city councilors who say the companies wrongly 
dropped their names to demonstrate local support to state health regulators.

Andrew DeAngelo, the Bay Area pot magnate who plans to open a 
dispensary at 70 Southampton St. in Roxbury, will attend the hearing, 
said a Green Heart Holistic Health & Pharmaceuticals spokesman. Reps 
from Good Chemistry, which plans a pot shop at 364-368 Boylston St., 
also will attend.

Green Heart's application says City Councilor Tito Jackson "expressed 
his appreciation for our efforts to directly engage our potential New 
Market neighbors ... and pledged future support upon award of a 
provisional registration."

Jackson said he never supported the location, and he plans to ask why 
the company said he did.

"To mischaracterize the conversation is unacceptable," he said.

Jackson and DeAngelo met this week. Asked how it went, Jackson said, 
"Let's put it this way. I have not changed my mind."

Good Chemistry's application includes a letter from City Councilor 
Stephen J. Murphy expressing "non-opposition to Good Chemistry Inc.'s 
application." Murphy later said Good Chemistry had not announced its 
location at the time of the letter.
- ---
MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom