View full sizeA map of medical marijuana dispensaries in Greater Boston. BOSTON — Of the five companies that applied for a medical marijuana dispensary license in Boston, only Green Heart Holistic Health Pharmaceuticals and Good Chemistry of Massachusetts were awarded the opportunity to set up shop.
Both have a bit of a ways to go, though, before their doors will actually open.
Jaime Lewis, chief operating officer of Good Chemistry, said that the company will go through the zoning and permitting process next week, as well as meet with local neighborhood groups.
Good Chemistry, set to open up at 364-368 Boylston St., near Arlington Station on the Green Line, was challenged at first by trying to find a space that complied with the regulations that require a dispensary to be 500 feet away from the nearest school.
The security firm LAN-TEL will protect the facility Lewis said.
Lewis praised the DPH for the smoothness of the medical marijuana licensing process.
“It’s amazing how the Department of Public Health handled this situation, in such a short amount of time. We’ve worked closing with other states in developing a medical marijuana program and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health handled it the best, really set the tone for other programs,” said Lewis.
Green Heart Holistic Health Pharmaceuticals could not be reached for immediate comment on their license. They plan to open a dispensary at 70 Southampton St. in the Newmarket neighborhood of Boston.
The other three Boston companies that applied for licenses, Centers for Alternative Medicine, MA Care Connect, and Prime Wellness, were not on the list of applicants instructed to pick a different location.
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, an opponent of the medical marijuana law as a state legislator,
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