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“In the Outer Cape’s saturated cannabis market, one Eastham dispensary, Emerald Grove, is looking to expand into dispensing medical marijuana.
The shop, in the Main Street Mercantile complex on Route 6, is one of 12 cannabis dispensaries between Brewster and Provincetown — a number that makes the Lower Cape one of the most crowded markets for recreational marijuana in Barnstable County.
But Cape Cod has only two other medical marijuana treatment facilities, and both are nearly an hour away from Eastham. One is in Mashpee and the other in Sandwich.
At a community outreach meeting held online on Nov. 20, Phil Silverman, a lawyer for Emerald Grove, said that the owners plan to start dispensing medical marijuana as soon as their license is approved by the state’s Cannabis Control Commission (CCC). They expect that will happen within the next eight months……”
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MassBudget reference in article:
“In addition, medical card holders do not have to pay state or local taxes on their medicine, which can be as high as 20 percent, according to a paper released by MassBudget in September.”
